I must admit that this device looks very cool, but I wonder how long it will run, compared to other Palm devices: both speed and colors are known to drain batteries.
The main disadvantage of Win4Lin compared to VMWare seems to be that it is not a real virtual machine, which makes it impossible to run anything else than Windows. Since VMWare is capable or running Linux on Linux, it can be used for kernel development and other dangerous stuff. It can also run other OS's such as Solaris or OS2.
I also wonder if the use of Win4Lin doesn't make your system vulnerable to Windows viruses (such as macro viruses in Word): since these applications now have access to your Linux file systems, they can easily destroy your data.
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I must admit that this device looks very cool, but I wonder how long it will run, compared to other Palm devices: both speed and colors are known to drain batteries.
I must say that this reminds me of the situation 20 years ago, when IBM had an agreement with Microsoft to ship DOS with all their PC's.
Let's hope it doesn't turn out the same way!
The main disadvantage of Win4Lin compared to VMWare seems to be that it is not a real virtual machine, which makes it impossible to run anything else than Windows. Since VMWare is capable or running Linux on Linux, it can be used for kernel development and other dangerous stuff. It can also run other OS's such as Solaris or OS2.
I also wonder if the use of Win4Lin doesn't make your system vulnerable to Windows viruses (such as macro viruses in Word): since these applications now have access to your Linux file systems, they can easily destroy your data.
I'm surprised noone thought of this before: hiring people in these countries costs a lot less than hiring them in the United States or in Europe.
Let's hope they are better coders than the Elbonians (if you don't know what Elbonians are: read Dilbert).