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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The comparison to Win4Lin is pointless. Why not compare it to PowerPoint?
VMWare emulates a hardware platform, complete with CPU, memory bus, disk hardware, etc. Win4Lin (and Wine, etc.) emulate the API's.
While I *could* use VMWare to run WinWord or PowerPoint on my Linux laptop, as the reviewer pointed out, this requires 256M+ of RAM plus untold CPU dedicated to a stupid word processor.
Win4Lin and Wine take a fundamentally different approach - one that does not suffer from the enormous overhead of simulating an entire HW platform.
If you're going to have someone review the product, why not get somebody who actually understands what it does, instead of this featherweight?