Tuesday, 8 August 2006

Have You Got Wind of VMware’s New Product?

"We are excited to bring our desktop platform product to Apple Macs. The demand for this has been unbelievable and it is clearly front and center for Mac users," said Diane Greene, president of VMware. VMware has announced it plans to release a Mac version of its virtualization software that will enable Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris. .

"VMware is in the business of providing virtualization platforms as well as add-on functionality that leverages our virtualization platform. This announcement brings our desktop platform and add-on capabilities to Mac users, and it will allow them to run a variety of operating systems without rebooting. Mac users who also use the PC will be able to use this product to consolidate onto the Mac".

Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software applications, all packaged within virtual machines that can be run using VMware virtualization products, including VMware Player and VMware Server which are both available for free download at here.