What’s New VMware Workstation 7
You skipped Windows Vista, and now you really want to see if Windows 7 is worth the leap. Or maybe you may want to test SQL Server 2008 installed on Windows Server 2008 for your PDM system. For many IT professionals today, the solution of choice for these challenges is virtualization. And if VMware is your virtualization brand of choice, you’ll be glad to know that VMware Workstation 7 is available, with some new features just for those of us in the CAD and 3D arenas. Continue Reading
Whether you’re among the ranks of Engineering or Quality, creating inspection sheets can be a real pain. InspectionXpert is a valuable tool for automating processes around inspection sheets, and worth a look if your industry requires documented inspections. 
With the release of the Dassault Systemes V6R2010 products (and some V6R2009x products) a new version of the DS license server is required, namely LUM 5.1.x. For those that have never seen prior LUM releases behave strangely, the 5.1 release seems to be a bit quirkier and more sensitive to its environment. 
A powerful technology has been available from VMware for quite some time and yet it is not fully understood by many technical folks. A virtual machine clone, like the word suggests, is a copy of an existing virtual machine (VM). A cloned VM can take two forms: a linked clone or a full clone. Since clones can be created at any moment in time, they provide many unique opportunities for managing the virtual environment while accomplishing tasks in a more productive manner. This functionality can also be challenging if not properly managed. 
It’s easy to see, standing in the electronics section of BestBuy or Sam’s Club, that 64-bit computing has finally arrived. When lowly consumers can readily and inexpensively purchase the “next generation” technology, companies can rest assured that the time has come to upgrade, swap out, retire, or do whatever is done with last decade’s computers. At last, CAD applications starving for memory will finally be fed and applications needing more speed will surely zip right along. 
