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Great News from VMWare (via Wubble):

Today, as part of our VMworld 2005 festivities, we announced our VMware Player. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines.

This could really lower the barrier for people who want to try linux. An immediate example is the special Browser Appliance virtual machine that’s based on Ubuntu Hoary featuring Firefox; great way to spread the word about Linux, and the wonderful distribution that is Ubuntu.

Another great consequence is many vendors realesed pre-built virtual machines of their software stack, available on the Virtual Machine Center; a wonderful example is SpikeSource Core, an interoperable combination of open source components, this greatly simplifies software packaging, distribution, and deployment.

I forsee also a nice costs cut for those labs using VMWare to provide Linux and Windows on the same computer.

(off topic: posted using flock, more on this later).

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