{"id":91,"date":"2005-10-20T21:24:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T04:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2005-10-20T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T04:24:49","slug":"vmware-player-changes-software-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/vmware-player-changes-software-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"VMWare player changes software demos!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/10\/20\/2227225\">Slashdot<\/a>, VMWare just released a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download\/player\/\">VMWare &#8220;player&#8221;<\/a> that will play any VMWare machine.  I&#8217;m quite surprised, but pleasantly!  This means that ISVs, consultants, and trainers can all prep an absolutely &#8220;perfect&#8221; PC at a point in time and distribute it to others in a method that ENSURES that it will fire up and work correctly.  The days of &#8220;installing&#8221; software demos is done&#8230; Demos have to be WICKED easy and this does it!  This will be invaluable to setting up classrooms on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayontechnologies.com\/bt\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/oracle_warehous.php\">OWB Workshops<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayontechnologies.com\/bt\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/owb_administrat.php\">Courses<\/a>!  Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by Slashdot, VMWare just released a free VMWare &#8220;player&#8221; that will play any VMWare machine. I&#8217;m quite surprised, but pleasantly! This means that ISVs, consultants, and trainers can all prep an absolutely &#8220;perfect&#8221; PC at a point in time and distribute it to others in a method that ENSURES that it will fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}