[PLUG] VMWare

[Ed Sawicki]

I no longer use VMware for similar reasons. I'm
unwilling to buy a product more than once.

Ed


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 07:15, Stevn Bartley wrote:
> I use VMWare to provide access to QuickBooks Pro.  Right now, I am
> really not very happy with VMWare.  I run VMWare on my RH Linux system
> to access a Win98 load which runs my QuickBooks.  I originally purchased
> VMWare under the personal use license for $99.  Then, they changed their
> license costs and I had to pay $249 to upgrade to version 3 because I
> missed the deadline for getting the $99 upgrade so had to pay full
> price.  I was on RH 7.2 at the time I upgraded to VMWare 3.  Some time
> later, RH 8.0 came out and I upgraded my system.  After this, the
> Windows load under VMWare started to have problems with shutting down. 
> I would get an error message everytime.  The system seemed to run fine
> but every time I shut the Windows session down, I would get this error
> and then when I would start the next session, the system would say that
> it had been shutdown unclean and needed to recover.  I reported this
> problem to VMWare around November 2002.  VMWare's answer was "We don't
> support VMWare on RH 8.0".  No where on their web sited did it say this
> at the time. (About a week later, they put a disclaimer on the web.) 
> Not one mention of plans to fix the issue or how long before it would be
> fixed.
> 
> Now, I receive a notice from VMWare last week saying that "We are
> writing to inform you of bugs resolved by VMware Workstation 4, which we
> released in April 2003.  We fixed the following bugs for which you filed
> support requests against VMware Workstation 3:"
> 
> Well thanks VMWare, you finally fixed an issue for me but now, I have to
> pay to upgrade to the next version to get the fix.  I will have spent
> $447.00 on their software.
> 
> I think that this time, I am just going to live with the error.  Doesnt
> seem to affect the system seriously and I have a hard time paying them
> to fix bugs in their software.  
> 
> Just my 2c.
> 
> Steve
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 20:19, 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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Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com>
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