Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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>Why wouldn't you spend less than half of that money on a new hard drive and dual boot isntead?
This is what people don't understand. They think that VMWare is a consumer product for OS geeks. News flash, it is not.
VMWare Workstation is mostly geared for developers who want to do cross-developing, or trying different versions of the same OS, e.g. Microsoft could use VMWare to *test* all their internationalization. Having dual boots costs money in time and administration, something that VMWare pays off.