VanLUG Email Archive
Dave Michelson (dmichelson@home.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:53:08 +0000
Dave Michelson wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> We're currently arranging for a VMware presentation and demo at the next
> VanLUG meeting (Monday, 19 April 1999).
Update:
* Petar Knezevich <pknezevi@chml.ubc.ca> is coordinating the VMware
presentation.
* If you've had a chance to play around with the VMware beta and would
like to contribute to the presentation, please let Petar know ASAP.
* Brian Edmonds <brian@gweep.bc.ca> is coordinating the demo hardware.
> For more information about VMware, check out an online version of an
> article that appeared a short time ago in the Wall Street Journal:
>
> http://interactive.wsj.com/public/current/articles/SB922310643807530093.htm
>
> Here are a few extracts:
>
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> VMware, a program that is a hot topic in Silicon Valley even
> before it has been officially released....
>
> The closely held Palo Alto, Calif., company, founded in 1997 by
> researchers from Stanford University.... Mendel Rosenblum,
> a Stanford computer-science professor, and two of his graduate
> students, Edouard Bugnion and Scott Devine, along with Edward
> Wang, from the University of California, Berkeley.
>
> VMware, now with just two dozen employees, plans to do most of
> its selling over the Internet, or through group licenses to
> big companies. It remains to be seen whether they will find
> much success outside the technical community.
>
> "VMware is quite remarkable," said Jean-Louis Gassee, Be's
> founder. "They are really clever guys."
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-- Dave Michelson dmichelson@home.com
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