Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Mar 2009 11:48 UTC, submitted by PLan
In a move that would certainly shake up the computer industry quite a bit, IBM is reportedly in talks with Sun Microsystems about the possibility of IBM acquiring Sun. Sun is going through hard times at the moment, and has been actively looking for someone to be acquired by.
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Member since:2005-09-27
Second joke of the year.
Measuring drive space is your issue?
I measure stability, speed and reliability, VMWare wins hands down.
Not that VirtualBox is a bad product, but is not as good as VMWare, oh, but I forgot, anything that has the "Build with Qt" in yout dictionary is always superior (at least the GUI), talking about biaz.
Edited 2009-03-18 16:26 UTC
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by segedunum on Fri 20th Mar 2009 01:15
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Member since:2005-07-06
I seem to remember replying to this for some reason, but Thom might have got sore about it ;-).
VMware Workstation has a ton of shortcomings, and it most certainly isn't faster than VirtualBox. Speed and reliability? Based on what?
oh, but I forgot, anything that has the "Build with Qt" in yout dictionary is always superior (at least the GUI), talking about biaz.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, now we get to the punchline and what this is really about. I'm sorry that you're sore that Qt is proving a better cross-platform technology to write VirtualBox in, is helping them write less code when compared to VMware and is providing them with a rich client console that actually works well cross-platform, but, you know, there's nothing I can do about that ;-).
I don't call that bias. It just works better.
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2005-07-06
Discussion and reasoning were never your strong points ;-).
I've been using VMware Workstation as well as various other VMware products using the same codebase, and it is a pretty large bloated mess. You only need to look at how much larger the installer is compared with VirtualBox to see how much of a 'joke' it is. VirtualBox also has a far better desktop console that, lo and behold, actually works well cross-platform whereas VMware are ditching theirs in favour of a woeful web interface. It gets more woeful every time I use it now. Oh, and VirtualBox is free.
VMware is living on borrowed time. The joke's on them unless they do something.