On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain wrote about Re: [SLE] SuSE 7 Deluxe now vmware talk::
I would love to be able to run VMware on my box. I was extremely impressed with the 30 days use I had of it. But to buy it for $300? There's no way I can justify that to myself (or my wife). It's just too expensive. It's *at least* the equivalent of a new mobo + chip + mem and it would mean that I wouldn't be able to buy each new ver of SuSE as it comes out nor would I be able to keep adding to my library of linux books as I can now.
Vmware for home (hobbist) use is 99USD. That's about 66GBP at current exchange rates. In the snippet quoted below you say you'd buy it for that!
Hmmn. I wouldn't have to sneak it into the house and install it when she wasn't loking either. :-) I'm sold.
Perhaps if SuSE could possibly do a deal along the lines of reg'd SuSE users get it at $100 (even that's a bit steep but I'd be willing to bite the bullet and save up for it). I should imagine too that that it wouldn't cost a lot to advertise this either. The L. Journal, L. Gazette et al would certainly splash this around.
What do you think Michael? Would your marketting people go for a suggestion like that? But, more importantly, are they cheeky enough to approach VMware?
SuSE and Vmware clearly have a relationship of some sort. You can buy Vmware with SuSE on a preinstalled VM if you want it. Have you checked the vmware web site recently?
Not since June, I think. Thanks for the info, Derek. Cheers,
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