[TriLUG] VMware clarifications

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 08:18:08AM -0400, Rev. Christian J Hedemark spoke thusly:
> I was pretty excited after last night's demo to get my hands on VMware.
> There were some disappointing clarifications to last night's talk, from the
> horses mouth (http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/exp_faqs.html)
*snip*
> In other words, the express version can only do Win95/98.  To run NT you
> need the much more expensive "Workstation" version (about $250).

The pricin jhas changed then. I paid $99 for my VMWare 2.0 Workstation
Licence, and can pre-order an upgarde to 3.0 for about the same.

> The express version is advertised at ~$50 and for the full featureset we saw
> last night I'd be willing to buy it at that price.  Maybe even $100 or $150.
> For ~$250 it's a little much.  For another $50 I could buy another *real*
> machine to run another OS on.

I think I can ask if we cna get a group discount or something - that's
as Chair of the LUG. Or if you're already doing the legwork, tell me
who to talk to if it's even available. 

let me say this for anyone who can find/help get us special deals : IF
you can do it, do it - but final aproval will ahve to be through
myself and JonC, to make sure it's all legal and whatnot. 

in other words, you can negotiate, but Jon and/or I have to approve
anythign before it can become final, in order to make sure we don't
jeprodise out 501(c)(3) status. 

Cool?

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