Every now again people have to go back on a decision that they've made and make a U-turn. At VMworld in Barcelona, VMware have announced a reversal of their decision earlier this year to discontinue the sale of ThinApp as a standalone product. After December 15th 2013 it would only have been possible to purchase ThinApp as a part of the Horizon Suite but these plans have now been binned and ThinApp will continue to be available as a standalone product. To be honest, I didn't know about the original announcement when it happened but it's nice that VMware have…
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If you don't know what VMTN is, you might be new to VMware virtualisation or the IT industry. Either way, I have an older post that covers it a bit. I posted it in November 2011 just as the campaign to get the VMTN subscription re-instated by VMware was kicking off. Here we are though, nearly 18 months later, and it looks like it's not going to happen. One of VMTN's biggest proponents, Mike Laverick, posted on the VMware Communities thread related to VMTN today that it looks unlikely. In his words: The prevailing view appears to be that other…
Article by Michael Poore (@mpoore) You could be forgiven for thinking that by now Mike Laverick's campaign to get VMware to reinstate their VMTN subscription must have reached saturation point. Even though the software giant has sat up and taken notice – real notice – Mike's not letting up yet. The latest effort in what is dubbed the “VMTN Subscription Movement” (Twitter: #VMTNSubscriptionMovement) is a series of “miniwags” (a shorter version of Mike's “Chinwag” podcast), brief video clips of people discussing the VMTN Subscription that Mike is posting on YouTube. Knowing Mike from the…
A few years back VMware used to have a VMTN Subscription which was their equivalent of Microsoft's Technet scheme. The purpose of it, like with Technet, was to provide industry professionals with a mechanism of running legitimately licensed software for testing and educational purposes. Sadly it was discontinued in 2007. The following is taken from the End Of Life (EOL) FAQ that VMware published at the time: VMware VMTN Subscription has been a successful, award-winning offering, providing software developers and QA professionals with access to VMware's powerful suite of virtualization products. However, since its introduction in June of 2005, VMware…