Yesterday I dropped by the Four Seasons Hotel to check out VMware’s public demo of its in-development virtualization software for OS X. I watched an Intel Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM run Windows XP within OS X, more or less the same way VMware Workstation or Player runs Windows within Windows or within Linux. Performance looked great, including smooth video and Webcam playback from within the virtualized XP instance. What I didn’t see, and what eventual users of VMware…

I read a blog entry today by Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP, in which he sought to set the record straight concerning his opinions toward open source. Last week, Agassi made some comments about open source software and development that some interpreted as negative. So, let us duly note, Shai LOVES open source. I thought briefly about blogging about those earlier comments, not in response to the bits about open source being non-innovative, but…