Hi Neil ,
what an ass..
Well Neil , i wouldn't exactly put it that way . He is well respected consultant for Sun , and after hearing him for 3 days i think he is anything but that.
trust an indian to make a fool of himself... why make a presentation in ppt when u try to show that u r using linux???? i mean... didnt he find any linux bases thingys that could do the same thing??? the underdown went down under to come out an ass...
He wasnt 'trying' to show he was using linux , he made the presentation in PPT as he just hands it over to the training division of Sun in the country he is speaking in , to pass it on to the people who took the course . In fact during the course of the seminar , he made more than one subtle potshot at MS/Windows. All the XML/WAP examples he gave and all the demos were in Linux (Cocoon,Tomcat,Xerxes,Xeena etc etc) . And the way he was going about it , it was pretty clear he was a linux user and not 'trying' to use it like i probably would.
as for vmware... i think it is meant only for those who need to show their boss that they are still working in win98.cos in the big picture... vmware sucks.(not technologically... but practically)
Well you obviously dont feel the need for it , some people do. My company is into web development and though i use Windows myself , i need to demo applications , sometimes in PERL or PHP . I dont want to drag 2 computers around so i simply use a virtual computer under vmware to act as the webserver.
In another instance i needed to show a windows application that had a client side s/w and a server side s/w for IIS . They needed to be on separate machines . Again i used vmware to install Win2k server and IIS , and was able to use it successfully .
- Ankur.