[ale] advice needed.

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 18:11:02 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a web application that we sell to corporations for 1000 users.
> Marketing has come back and asked for a 20 user solution. We tried
> suggesting the SAAS approach but for accounting purposes this may be
> more difficult for customers to agree too.
>
> So the only other option is to do this as a vmware image that will run
> on a windows platform. (The virtual machine would still be a linux
> machine.)
>
> I don't have a lot of experience with this. Does this sound
> reasonable.  Im thinking that this may be great for simplifying
> backups and that sort of thing. Is this reasonable for A windows user
> to run a virtual machine on his PC?

I know at least one company that sells an appliance ($80K) and a
scaled down VMware instance for considerably less.

I think they recommend the vmware instance be on a server still.  (ie.
Not a random users desktop.)

I'm not aware of any issues they have had.

Greg
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