Paul Venezia said it best when he said that VMware has played second fiddle to no one since its inception and that those competing with the virtualization giant have found it to be tough going. But perhaps someone failed to mention that to team Parallels. You would think that they would have learned that lesson with their Parallels Workstation product for Windows and Linux, but they quickly came out with a Mac O Paul Venezia said it best when he said that VMware has played second fiddle to no one since its inception and that those competing with the virtualization giant have found it to be tough going.But perhaps someone failed to mention that to team Parallels. You would think that they would have learned that lesson with their Parallels Workstation product for Windows and Linux, but they quickly came out with a Mac OS X product anyway. First to market, and with a fairly seamless and well working and well received product according to Mac users, the company hasn’t looked back. The company recently launched their Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac product and it appears to be feature rich. On the other hand, VMware isn’t sitting on the sidelines watching the Mac OS X market pass them by either. VMware announced Beta 4 of its Mac OS X virtualization platform, Fusion. InfoWorld recently put both products through a series of tests in its Test Center.Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac received an Excellent 9.1 rating. The bottom line stated: “Parallels Desktop 3.0 brings several new features to the Mac OS X virtualization game, including direct graphics acceleration capabilities, snapshots, and offline browsing of VM file systems. It’s a very worthy companion to anyone bridging the gaps between the Windows and Mac world, and the price is definitely right.”VMware Fusion is still in Beta, but the bottom line reads: “VMware’s first foray into the Mac OS X desktop virtualization market is a very strong showing, due in no small part to its proven technology on other platforms. The Fusion beta itself isn’t enough to unseat Parallels as the tool of choice on the Mac platform, but it’s certainly very close. The full release of Fusion is due in August, and that may make the Parallels-VMware contest a different ball game altogether.” I invite you to read the full review on both products.You can read the full review on Paralles’ product here. And you can read the entire review on Beta 4 of VMware’s product here. Software Development