Jim,
You are right, that makes me mad also.
IBM really blew it when they did not trade mark "VM"
munson
Jim Elliott <jelli...@gdlvm7.vnet.ibm.com>
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03/30/2010 09:34 PM
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Re: ACM award
> Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have
> been a member since 1970) made the following award:
> "VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for
> bringing virtualization technology to modern computing
> environments, spurring a shift to virtual-machine
> architectures, and allowing users to efficiently run multiple
> operating systems on their desktops."
> Aside from the "run multiple OSes on the desktop" part,
> shouldn't we be insulted?
Chip:
Yes, we should be insulted. I remember being very upset the first
time I heard a VMware employee talk about how they had invented
the idea of server virtualization! Even on x86, VM386 was out
years before VMware (even if it failed in the market). I am still
upset every time I hear someone talk about "VM" when they mean
VMware. My reaction is, I work on the real VM!
Jim
(aka "Sir Jim the Evangelist")
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