VMware Communities: VMware Communities Blog : 2008 : May : 27

It's been a while since I updated all of you on the creation of new VMware Communities. Since we created the first two beta portals, Workstation 6.5 Beta and ACE 2.5 Beta, two more public beta program communities have emerged: VMware ThinApp and VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta . Obviously, the VMware desktop product teams have been quite active! But don't worry, the server product teams are quietly working behind the scenes, and you'll see the fruit of their labor in due time.

Meanwhile, the Workstation 6.5 Beta and ACE 2.5 Beta portals have been refreshed, but will now require you to register, in order to view the beta portal as well as to download the binaries. The initial step is annoying: having to go in and complete that dreaded registration form all over again, and accepting the End User License Agreement. However, the upside is that, in the future, you will never have to register again for beta programs for these two products. (Some users have been complaining about going through registration process and receiving an error message: "Unauthorized." I am writing a separate post just on that subject.)

Thanks.

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Team Fusion has been making good use of the Documents feature in VMware Communities. Since the release of VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta, the product team has been collecting feedback from the beta community on the compatibility and performance of DirectX 3D gaming applications with VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta. They are leveraging open, online collaboration amongst beta participants on the Document: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta: 3D Games Testing Matrix.

The most obvious benefit is that any beta participant can contribute to the matrix, thus helping to build up a useful repository of information valuable to the community of VMware Fusion users who wish to use 3D games within a virtual machine. But a by-product of this process is that this medium of online collaboration is bringing together individuals who share a very specific common interest - and that is, after all, the point of web communities, isn't it?

Do you have other good examples of Documents and online collaboration in VMware Communities? Would love to read about them in your comments on this blog post.