VMWare 5 for free

Doophy

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VMWare is holding workshops in June between the 14th and 16th. It includes a breakfast, some presentations, a demo and some other stuff you can probably ignore whilst playing games on your PDA/PSP/GBA/whatever.

The cool thing is you get a free copy of VMWare Workstation 5 for attending.

But wait, it gets better! If you can't/don't want to attend, get someone else to go and put your email down as a referral. You'll both get a free copy of VMWare.

Technically, you could get 2 free licensed copies (normally $189 apiece) of the software out of this. Simply refer yourself by entering another email in the referral section and on the registration form at the workshop.

Link:
http://www.vmware.com/news/events/seminars/corporate/

Dates/Cities:
6/14/05 Atlanta
6/14/05 Boston
6/14/05 Chicago
6/14/05 Dallas
6/14/05 Minneapolis
6/14/05 Raleigh
6/14/05 San Jose
6/15/05 Houston
6/15/05 Milwaukee
6/15/05 Montreal
6/15/05 New Brunswick
6/15/05 Washington DC (Reston)
6/15/05 Seattle
6/15/05 Tampa
6/16/05 Cincinnati
6/16/05 Nashville
6/16/05 Philadelphia
6/16/05 Phoenix
6/16/05 Toronto
6/16/05 Vancouver
 

dabuddha

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Man I'd love to go to the DC session but it's on a wednesday. I can't take a whole day off from work for this.
 

nitsuj3580

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Originally posted by: dabuddha
Man I'd love to go to the DC session but it's on a wednesday. I can't take a whole day off from work for this.

the agenda appears to only go from 8:30 to noon. Is there an afternoon part also?
 

GoingUp

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Jul 31, 2002
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I did some benchmarking of their software for a past employer, and its really a sweet product :)
 

Chunkee

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Jul 28, 2002
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we use their products extensively at my job, including the esx server edtions

nice tools

jC
 

Keitero

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Ooo, theres one in Raleigh, I might go, but I think it would seem odd for a 20 year old (I don't look 20 BTW, darn youth) to go.
 

trevinom

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Originally posted by: Chunkee
we use their products extensively at my job, including the esx server edtions

nice tools

jC

that name induces all kinds or letter rearrangemnt every time I read it..I read it as s*x server editions.

I used their 3.x version and it wasn't bad. Too bad there are no Tallahassee stops :(
 

AStar617

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Times like this I'm glad I'm a 1:30pm-10pm engineer :thumbsup:

I'm in for the Boston session, AND it counts as professional development for my job :D
 

trevinom

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Originally posted by: Savarak
I want in on the email referral thing! PM me if you can put me in!

Oh, yea, like someone's gonna put in a complete stranger, like me at trevinom at yahoo dot com, just by asking.

But good luck anyways :)
 

artecnical

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Originally posted by: artecnical
Can someone put me as a referral? I can't attend any of the cities, but would love a copy of this.

artecnical@gREMOVEmail.com Just remove REMOVE

PM me if you will do this, so I don't get a bunch of people doing it.

Can anybody help out? You would have my eternal gratitude.
 

csundar

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Dec 16, 2004
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I can't attend one of the seminars. PM me if you will put my email down for the referral.

thanks!
 

Fuelrod

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I'm in at the Houston locaction. Balex99 (Hollywood), put you down as my referal, enjoy. You can thank me and buy me Smirnoff later ;)
 

keandco

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May 12, 2005
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Before we all get toooo excited... there are a few important facts missing.

Specficially, looking at the email and registration form, it's fairly clear that VMware can weed out self-referrals, and bogus referrals.

(A) Only the email to VMware customers made the referral offer. So they have a list of qualified "referrers". If you're not on that list, I don't see the referral offer being made anywhere else.

(B) Says "refer A friend" -- refer two, I think someone's out of luck...

(C) Every seminar I've been to cross-checks attendees and registrations. So probably harder to game the system than it's worth.

So I figure I can go to the seminar, maybe learn something -- or buy my copy at work off a corporate expense budget anyway, not like it's coming out of MY pocket...