Re: [Fed-Talk] Fusion vs. Parallels
Re: [Fed-Talk] Fusion vs. Parallels
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Fusion vs. Parallels
- From: Court Kizer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:07:17 -0800
I did until 6 months ago. I spent about 1 year at VMware. Prior to
using Fusion I used Parallels, until I actually found out the code
behind it. Also we constantly have US Military types doing business
deals with us at location near McDonnell Douglas.
On Dec 23, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
In the interest of full disclosure, do you work for VMWare? (EMC)
J
email@hidden wrote:
Re: Fusion and Parallels - which is the better buy?
Tod:
I'm going to have to say VMware Fusion. This might be because I
actually worked on VMware Fusion, doing the UI as well as being a
member of the only Mac team at VMware. My personal preferences
aside there are some very serious reason Parallels is not a product
you should be using for government business.
1. Parallels is actually based and coded in Russia. Much of the
code used was taken from various other projects that are
questionable legally.
2. Parallels is a qt-app, meaning it's not a true Cocoa
application. In that sense it's a really, really poor port and not
native, clean Mac application.
3. It's full of hacks and bugs because of the qt-app status. It
doesn't use apple's proper libraries and doesn't take proper
advantage of multiple processors.
4. When running windows or other OSes it actually Modifies the
virtual disk, so that your window serial or registration doesn't
think it's now on another machine. If you were to shut down or
crash there is a good chance you can corrupt the entire virtual
disk file. This is just bad practice, but it's the only way they
can do it because of their "hacked" virtualization.
5. VMware Fusion was written from the ground up using modern Apple
tools. The team is small, inside of a large company "the next
google" that does nothing but virtualization. The team consists of
ex-apple employees and people who have extreme mac experience.
6. VMware's virtual disc format is open-source, and has been around
for a long period of time. It's been tried and proven, and there
are products for all platforms.
7. Consider the fact that the IT Director? for the Marines is
planning to use VMware virtualization for all their military
systems starting next year.
8. Many, many government agencies are already using VMware because
it's been security hardened and VMware works hard to improve based
on feedback.
9. Some of those agencies that I know of: DoD, NSA, CIA, Army,
Navy, Airforce, Marines, and lots of Federal agencies that aren't
just intelligence or military.
10. VMware Fusion for mac will be much more stable as it's a native
cocoa application, works properly with 64bit, AND DOES NOT write
INTO your virtual disk for registration like Parallels does. This
to me would be a huge concern for business.
11. VMware uses SMP, supports 64bit and so much more, and VMware
will work closely with federal agencies.
12. I can probably hook you up with some demo licenses or put you
in contact with someone to give detailed hands on showing of the
features between Parallels and Fusion.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Best Regards,
Court Kizer
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