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All beta's have expiration code in them, that is standard practice. it is too stop nefarious people running Beta code past the sell by date (ie GA) and to make sure that GA code is used, GA code is usually faster as it does not have all the de-bugging code running in it.
I don't understand where you think VMware is accusing you of being a pirate!! (but if the cap fits
) Yes VMware missed the relevant code, Bad QA and processes need to be looked at and issues addressed. but stop kicking them, I think they get the message. things like this has happened with other vendors and I have not seen their CEO writing a public applogy and statement (think Vista and the "Oh my got my update manager no longer works bug"). and 36 hours for a turn around and fix is impressive. Tom Howarth
VMware Communities User Moderator
COS wrote:"And you do own binaries with no expiration, it's called ESX 3.5 Update 1"...
So what your saying is that pre Update 2 VMware trusted us then for for some crazy a(insert letters here) reason in Update 2 the trust was broken?
Are you also saying that someone put this BUG into our Licensed copy of ESX 3.5 because it wasn't in my Licensed U1.
So what your saying is that pre Update 2 VMware trusted us then for for some crazy a(insert letters here) reason in Update 2 the trust was broken?
Are you also saying that someone put this BUG into our Licensed copy of ESX 3.5 because it wasn't in my Licensed U1.
No that is not what was being said. ESX3.5 Update 2 would be sent to core customers for external beta testing as per all Beta Code it contains time out code. the removal of this code prior to GA was missed. I know you work for the govenment, but beleive me this is no conspirisy, just a mistake. If you have ever been involved in Beta testing and tried to run a Beta after GA you will find it has timed out.
I was fortrunate in that my lazy a(insert letters here) put off patching because I'd rather let the newbies who are interested in getting the latest and greatest get slammed.
in a round about way, I agree but I worry about your tone 
My gripe isn't that we lost productivity, it's that the tax payers money spent was on a product that has blatently showed a major flaw. "Flaw" meaning not only how the product works but on how the products development integrity is flawed.
so you have never had an issue with Windows OS then, or Novell in the day. or any other peice of software. I have been using ESX for nearly 4 years now. I have had 2 major issues. in that same time I have lost count of the issues I have had form other Vendors. I still install and recommend the other vendors to customers, I see no reason why I can not continue recommending VMware.This has put a major wrench in the push for virtualization. Too many eggs (VM Guests) in one basket (ESX Host). VMWare just made it more difficult for me to make the sell to virtualization.
Not really, it is the same message. VMware may have made it more dificult to sell VMware but not virtualisation.
Tom Howarth
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