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From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 4 Jan 2010 19:11
"Bo Berglund" <boberglund(a)myotherhome.sec> wrote in message
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> What I don't understand is from where VMWare is going to get its
> revenue since Player3 surely will undercut Workstation sales.

VMWare makes (next to) nothing from sales of VMWare Workstation. Their major
revenue stream is from ESX Server. Their decision to bundle almost all of
Workstation's functionality into the free Player product is, I think, a very
shrewd marketing ploy. I'm sure they'll discontinue Workstation after the
next version - no-one who uses Player needs Workstation and, regrettably,
there really now is no need to use Virtual PC for anything, as VMWare Player
does everything so much better...

This is not uncommon in the IT software industry... Do you know anyone who
still uses Lotus 1-2-3...?


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

From: Steve Jain [MVP] on 4 Jan 2010 20:23
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:11:32 -0000, "Mark Rae [MVP]"
<mark(a)markNOSPAMrae.net> wrote:

>"Bo Berglund" <boberglund(a)myotherhome.sec> wrote in message
>news:tjs4k59v19h1bj9t6pb513o40kn9kdkt6r(a)4ax.com...
>
>> What I don't understand is from where VMWare is going to get its
>> revenue since Player3 surely will undercut Workstation sales.
>
>VMWare makes (next to) nothing from sales of VMWare Workstation. Their major
>revenue stream is from ESX Server. Their decision to bundle almost all of
>Workstation's functionality into the free Player product is, I think, a very
>shrewd marketing ploy. I'm sure they'll discontinue Workstation after the
>next version - no-one who uses Player needs Workstation and, regrettably,
>there really now is no need to use Virtual PC for anything, as VMWare Player
>does everything so much better...
>
>This is not uncommon in the IT software industry... Do you know anyone who
>still uses Lotus 1-2-3...?

And the big support contracts for ESX and everything that goes along
with ESx

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/
From: Mark Rae [MVP] on 4 Jan 2010 20:59
"Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message
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> And the big support contracts for ESX and everything that goes along
> with ESX.

Absolutely correct.


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

From: David Wilkinson on 5 Jan 2010 07:16
Bo Berglund wrote:
> The new one is VMWare Player 3 and it handles USB just fine as well as
> allowing Aero in the Vista/Win7 guests. And it runs 64 bit Windows if
> you have the processor for it (with VT) even though you run a 32 bit
> base OS for hosting Player3.

Actually (at least on Workstation 6) the requirements for x64 guest are

-- Revision D or later of AMD Athlon64, Opteron, Turion64, and Sempron

-- Intel Pentium 4 and Core2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization
Technology"

I have Athlon64 on Socket 939 which does not have hardware virtualization, but I
can use x64 guest (Win7) on x86 host (XP).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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