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VMware Player Named Most Innovative Software Product of the Year

Tuesday, 04 April 2006 by Michel Roth

VMware today announced that PC Professionell, a leading German publication, has named VMware Player the Most Innovative Software Product of the Year. This marks the second consecutive year that VMware has been honored by PC Professionell. VMware ESX Server was named the Most Innovative Network Product in 2005.

"We are impressed with VMware Player because it delivers software innovation and ease of use in a single package," said Jörg Geiger, senior software editor at PC Professionell. "We expect VMware Player to be a springboard for the growth and availability of virtual appliances, which offer the ability to run pre-configured, pre-packaged software in a secure environment and promise to have a significant impact on the IT market over the next year."

VMware Player is a free product that enables anyone to easily run, evaluate and share software in a virtual machine on a Linux or Windows PC. It installs like standard desktop software and runs full 32-bit and 64-bit applications and operating systems, known as virtual machines, in a secure environment, separate from the rest of the user’s PC. VMware Player is ideal for safely running virtual appliances which are ready-to-run software applications, all packaged within virtual machines.

Read the full press release here.