[PLUG] VMWare

[Steven A. Adams]

Thanks Fedor,
I have some communications software that I need to run to work with an
old, legacy, VPN suite. Right now I am on dual-boot but it's a pain in
the butt. Now I have the 30 day eval from vmware but I think it's going
to be a hard sell for me to justify the 279. 

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 21:37, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> I use it, but the company I work for bought the license for me. It's nice
> if you have a Windows application which does not run under Wine and for
> which there is no adequate Linux replacement (for example, Photoshop).
> They used to have a license for personal use at only $99, but it's no
> longer offered. Would I pay $280 myself for it? Probably not. There is
> Win4Lin which runs the same Photoshop, and sells for under $100 (VMware is
> better, it runs Win2K, and other Linuxes, and pretty much any guest OS you
> want, while Win4Lin runs only Win98/ME). But for $280 I'd probably
> dual-boot if I had to :)
> 
> On 20 Jun 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote:
> > Anybody use VMWare to manage Windows installations from a real OS
> > (*nix). For those that do, in your honest opinion, is it worth $279.00?
> >
> > Steve
> >
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