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lu666s:
That someone was me.

I also bought the 2.0 for $99 and upgraded to 3.0 ($99). The funny part was that I bought the 2.0 for linux BEFORE (6 months) I had linux on my system. It just seemed like extremely cool idea that when I will have linux on my system, I'll can just tuck windoze away into vmware and that would be the end of reboots as I knew it.

I was right. The additional benefit of running other OS's in vmware was an icing on the cake.

There is another example:

A friend of mine was thinking about switching to Linux. The problem was that he had everything neatly configured in w2k, from FTP to backup his remote server and email server (Mercury) to apache for production purposes. He wanted to port all of it later to linux, but being right smack in the middle of a heavy production cycle, he was willing to wait 8 months or so.

I told hem about the vmware option. He was mulling over it for about a day and then he said, let's go for it. He configured the vmware windoze the same as he had his only OS, and all went as usual, except he could now explore linux while having the other OS at his mouseclick/fingertips.

After a month or so of using the vmware, he noted:
"You now what I don't get? When I was running w2k on my machine, it crashed often. Since I run it under vmware, I had not one crash. Isn't that strange?"

That is the kind of perplexion that I wish many people had.  :D

[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: lu666s ]

Calum:
The problem with the $199 is that VMWare is worth it, or so everybody is saying. There's no way i could use a fake licence in good conscience. It would be different slightly if the victims of my deceit were Sony or Microsoft par example, but for a decent piece of kit, you can't complain at paying a decent bit of dough.
This is why it distresses me that i can't actually afford $199 right now! I'll have to wait. Of course, i still haven't got linux set up yet, for 1 reason or another, so i'll worry about it when i do...

lu666s:
Calum, no one is urging you to use a fake license. I think that VMWare guys are actually aware about 'extended' trials and let it go because the more you use it, the more you see its worth and eventually buy it. Otherwise they would use a different expiry paradigm that would disable subsequent runs.

I am an exception, since I bought it before I actually could use it. I don't think that there are many people that go for more than 2 months before buying it. The 30-days should be enough, but if you have an accident and end up in a hospital bed for 2 weeks, it is good to know that you may actually have another chance. BTW, I think that if you write vmware customer support that you did not have a achance to check the program during the trial, they would be more than happy to extend it. How about that? :)

Ozymandias:
Im glad to get the info on VM software but $199 is too steep for me i think ill just do a multiboot from drives c: or d:.. But if i can work up the extra cash ill give it a shot.. I was thinking about experimenting on an older computer first with the trial version. Im sure that if it gets such strong recommendations it is probably worth my time. I know i'm kinda new at this level computing but im learning fast. Thanks for the info!   ;)

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