On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Ben Greisler wrote:

> When I talked with VMware at Macworld they seemed genuinely
> surprised that anyone would want more than a desktop product (ala
> Fusion) in the Mac environment. This disappointed me as I was
> hoping for more datacenter centric products for the Apple platform
> or at least that they would be willing to listen to my requests.
> The folks over at Parallels seem to be interested in going in that
> direction.

Now that SWSoft has revealed it owns Parallels, and SWSoft has said
it is definitely going the server virtualization route with future
products, including on the Apple platform, I'd say this is almost a
certainty.

> I viewed this surprising behavior as one of two possibilities: 1.
> They really don't understand that there is Apple hardware in
> datacenters and we might actually like virtualization,

I think this is a reflection of EMC/VMWare not really thinking of
Apple being in the "enterprise" marketplace. For what it's worth,
people within VMWare have considered this, and Apple has told VMWare
it would welcome server virtualization products (like ESX) and OS X/
OS X Server virtualization, as long as it's on Apple hardware.

> or 2. They were going down that road and they know something about
> Apples plans that they don't like.

Very unlikely. Most people who work for Apple don't even know Apple's
plans, and Apple executives don't share this kind of information with
someone unless they're actually collaborating with them (e.g.,
Cingular), as opposed to *not* doing something.

- Dave

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