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VMware: Black Friday Sale - up to 40% off Fusion & Workstation (Including Upgrades)

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VMware: Black Friday Sale - up to 40% off Fusion & Workstation (Including Upgrades)
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OSienna on 25/11/2016 - 11:01 store.vmware.com (183 clicks)

Black Friday Sale:

  • Fusion 8.5: 67.16 AUD 95.95 AUD | Upgrade: 41.96 AUD 59.95AUD | SAVE 30%
  • Fusion 8.5 Pro: 143.37 AUD 238.95 AUD | Upgrade: 86.37 AUD 143.95AUD | SAVE 30%
  • Workstation 12.5 Player: 125.96 AUD 179.95 AUD | Upgrade: 67.16 AUD 95.95 AUD | SAVE 40%
  • Workstation 12.5 Pro: 179.97 AUD 299.95 AUD | Upgrade: 107.97 AUD 179.95 AUD | SAVE 40%
  • Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro BUNDLE: 269.44 AUD 538.9 AUD - SAVE 50%

SPECIAL OFFER FOR PARALLELS CUSTOMERS: Validate your Parallels serial key and get this awesome discount - SAVE 55%

Offer ends on 27 Nov @ 9:00 PM (US Pacific Time) / 28 Nov 4:00 PM AEST

This is part of Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals for 2016
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  • sengork on 25/11/2016 - 11:10
    +2

    Some of you may benefit from finding out about the free alternative: https://www.virtualbox.org

  • noz on 25/11/2016 - 11:26
    +6

    Keep in mind that VMware laid off their entire Fusion and Workstation development teams about a year ago. Updates and support will continue until about August next year, but it doesn't look like any new versions will be made (although VMware are saying it's "business as usual").
    I've never used Fusion, but Workstation is a brilliant product. Best type-2 Windows hypervisor on the market. Virtualbox is a very good free alternative, but still not in VMware Workstation's league.

  • bchliu on 25/11/2016 - 11:31

    I swear, VMWare rips off Windows customers so much considering how much VMWare Fusion (MacOS) is versus VMWare Workstation (Win). Asking $300 compared to Hyper-V (as good, free with Pro version of Windows) and Virtualbox (free, can random crash but has good community support) is ridiculous.

  • OSienna on 25/11/2016 - 11:39

    I believe this is how VMware justify their pricing:

    YouTube: The Awesome Power of VMware Hypervisors
    Think running 2 OS's at the same time is clever? How about 25? While this demo has no practical purpose, it does show how clean and efficient the VMware hypervisors are. It's quite amazing.

    • bchliu on 25/11/2016 - 11:53

      LOL… No different from H-V, Virtualbox, Parallels etc. In fact, on the Mac, I think Parallels is a slightly more polished product than fusion.

      • OSienna on 25/11/2016 - 11:58
        +1

        You need to watch the demo carefully - some of those operating systems are running "nested", something that I don't believe many hypervisors support e.g. VirtualBox, according to this

        • bchliu on 25/11/2016 - 12:04

          haha ok.. I do remember being able to effective "learn" ESX and loading that up as a VM and then running VM's on top of that etc.

          Inception

          Honestly though.. still not work $300 with very little practical purpose outside of training..

  • futaris on 25/11/2016 - 12:39

    QEMU KVM hasn't been mentioned here yet.

    • futaris on 25/11/2016 - 12:40

      LimeTech unRAID makes it easy for most end users

  • some_one_some_where on 25/11/2016 - 18:34

    Got WS Pro. Thanks.

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