Comments on: VMware to Crush Parallels’ Headstart and Parallels With It? http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/ The Internet Startup Blog Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Playing With Wire » Extreme Web Development - 60 seconds, 4 browsers, 1 machine http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-369 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:26:50 +0000 http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-369 […] wrote a slightly negative article about Parallels last week, but we gotta hand it to them. They write some pretty solid virtualization […]

]]> By: J. Nunn http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-208 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:51:22 +0000 http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-208 I use Parallels daily too–but is it me or is there a gaping memory leak somewhere? I’ve got 2.5 GB of ram and 1GB assigned to Windows in the virtual machine–but it still makes all my other (Mac Os X) apps run slow, even long after I close down Parallels.

I’ll be checking out VMware just to see if it’s any better at handling my multi-tasking tendencies.

]]> By: Alexander Ljungberg http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-204 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:14:39 +0000 http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-204 I’m not unhappy with Parallels either, actually. I use it daily, and I’ve learnt to live with the small imperfections. But the company has its work cut out for it.

]]> By: Casey http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-203 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:56:33 +0000 http://www.playingwithwire.com/2007/02/vmware-to-crush-parallels-headstart-and-parallels-with-it/#comment-203 I can’t say that I’m unhappy with Parallels. It is certainly doing the trick for me right now and I haven’t had any problems with it.

Having said that, VMware is a BIG company with a huge amount of resources. Parallels is not lightweight (owned by SWSoft) but really can’t compete toe-to-toe with EMC.

It will be interesting to see how quickly VMware eats into Parallels market share.

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