Comments on: What's in a Name? For Parallels, Maybe an IPO! http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sun Buys VirtualBox Virtualization Software - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187906 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:46:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187906 [...] server virtualization company XenSource. For those of you wondering who might be next, think about Parallels, formerly known as SWSoft whose software competes against VirtualBox. Share/Send Sphere Print [...]

]]> By: GigaOM Interview: Dr. Mendel Roseblum, Chief Scientist, VMWare - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187905 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:20:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187905 [...] Om Malik, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 9:21 AM PT Comments (0) Right before the Christmas holidays I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare’s chief scientist and one of the company’s four co-founders. Rosenblum is also an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he leads a group focused on operating systems research. It was at Stanford where Rosenblum and three of his graduate students — Scott Devine, Edouard Bugnion and Dr. Edward Wang — came up with the idea that led to VMWare (VMW). The company went public in August, and its multibillion-dollar valuation triggered off a virtualization frenzy. [...]

]]> By: Fence http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187904 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:41:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187904 That software is AWFUL! I spent weeks with tech support trying to figure out why the vm would always hose my machine and eat up cpu. They gave me 3.0 for free which was still garbage.

I switched to vmware fusion and THAT is a great product!

]]> By: Tiger http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187903 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:48:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187903 Best wishes to Parallels. I use Parallels Desktop for Mac and have had good experiences so far.

]]> By: Mike http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187902 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:14:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/12/12/parallels-maker-calls-itself-parallels-ipo-ahead/#comment-187902 Virtualization is a major vision for many organizations. The benefits of maximizing HW and minimizing power needs are hard to ignore by Data Center managers. So far virtualization platforms have not been excessively priced, and a new competitor will hopefully make all the products feature rich.

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