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From: Marlin Munrow (the_pfy_at_hotvroomfondlemail.com)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:02:16 +0100

Well you've failed to convince me.

I can see I've hit a nerve with you, my apologies. I too will get up
on a soap box for some MS products but if I told you which ones that
would just be a red rag.

In the end, a thing is a lie or it is truth. So you're still wrong in
my view but we can agree to disagree since this is usenet and you're
responses are well thought out but still wrong based on my experience
- btw I accept that not everyone will share my experience.

What cant speak cant lie so I can only go on my team's experience of
the 3x-4x vmware ws product vs vpc.

Its simple in my view you're wrong because we load 3 vpc sessions and
all is well 4 and the whole system browns out versus 6 machines in a
useable state with VMWare. I should also add, having purchased MSDN
Universal partly because of vpc I was sorely disappointed and have
returned to my old faithful vmware WS config. MSVPC takes nearly 30%
longer to load a machine from cold and restore from saved state takes
half the time on VMWare.

My kit (and that of the team I manage) isnt too powerful but MSVPC
runs poorly with similar results on our Compaq N610c's 1GB RAM /
N620c's 1GB RAM The team I manage also use vpc but understand its
limitations and will use VMWare in where appropriate.

MS VPC is a poor shadow of VMWare workstation. (it pains me to say
anything bad about MS products even those they liked so much they
bought the company).

I had *high* hopes of Connectix too, the technology that MS have
bought showed a great deal of promise when I tested it.

I stand by what I said though despite your protestations, this ms vpc
is still a v1.0 product its standards of production and reliability
say that under Microsoft its at best a v1.1 or 1.0 sp1 product despite
its version number at acquisition.

Regardless of what version number Connectix branded it (I have worked
in development companies like Connectix) all I can say about this
product and your argument, good though they both are, is...

Close but no cigar.

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:00:47 -0800, Steve Jain
<essjae-No@Spam-hotmail.com> wrote:

>What a wonderfully tactful message.
<<<<SNIP>>>
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