Joel on Software

VMWare Server Now Free!

I have always been a huge fan of VMWare Workstation. "The basic idea is that it lets you run a whole PC inside a window, with its own operating system and hard drive."

I've dreamed of the day when I could use something similar for servers. VMWare has had a couple of server products for a while now, GSX and ESX, but they were expensive and complicated.

No longer. VMWare Server is going free. Wow. Mike Gunderloy explains why this is "a market-changing move." This is great stuff, and it's not half baked.

Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? It has been a huge productivity boon for us, so I wrote Hg Init, a Mercurial tutorial—check it out!

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About the author.

I’m Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Fog Creek Software, a New York company that proves that you can treat programmers well and still be highly profitable. Programmers get private offices, free lunch, and work 40 hours a week. Customers only pay for software if they’re delighted. We make Trello, which lets you organize anything, together, FogBugz, enlightened issue tracking software for bug tracking, and Kiln, which provides distributed version control and code reviews. I’m also the co-founder and CEO of Stack Exchange. More about me.