Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

VMWare is now profitable. This is good news for a good company with a really great product. I have never used the high end VMWare stuff, the stuff they apparently really make money on, but I have extensively used the "workstation" versions to run a Winders machine on my Linux host.

Beyond just the practical like running Outlook Exchange client in a VM window on a Linux machine at a company that supports/encourages Linux desktops but still runs Exchange as a mailserver (as implausible as that sounds, I worked at such a place for over a year) VMWare can also be used for testing applications on various platforms, network performance testing, etc. IF you get enough physical memory you can run Windows, Novell, Linux, BSD, etc, all on one machine in their own VMs and test all sorts of stuff. QA lab on A single box as it were.

For more see VMWare and the linked news.com story.