Parallels Issues Release Candidate for Workstation 2.1, Will Hold Interactive Demonstrations at Intel Developer Forum, March 7th-9th in San Francisco
| HERNDON, Virginia – March 3rd, 2006 – Parallels, Inc., today announced the availability of the Parallels Workstation 2.1 Release Candidate. This is the final test version of Parallels Workstation 2.1; the final release version is scheduled for release in mid-March. |
New and existing users are welcome to download and evaluate a free, fully functional 45-day trial of the Parallels Workstation 2.1 Release Candidate at www.parallels.com/download/21beta. Testers can submit comments, suggestions and feedback by visiting http://www.parallels.com/en/21beta, or by sending an email to 21beta@parallels.com.
Parallels will be holding live demonstrations of the Release Candidate of Parallels Workstation 2.1 at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco’s Moscone Center as part of IDF’s Virtualization Community. The demonstration will highlight a number of important features and functions, including:
- The product’s improved look and feel
- New hardware support (USB support, PAE-mode support, wireless networking support)
- Support for SUSE 10 and Sun Solaris
- Virtual machine performance and stability improvements powered by stronger support for Intel Virtualization Technology®.
The 2006 IDF Virtualization Community is designed to bring third-party virtualization software vendors together under one roof to discuss the growing importance of virtualization in today’s desktop and server computing environment and to showcase the impact that hardware virtualization technologies will have on the industry. Parallels users can register for a free pass to the Thursday, March 9th session of the Virtualization Community Technology Showcase by visiting www.intel.com/idf/us and entering the promotional code "FOSE".
About Parallels
Parallels is server and workstation virtualization solutions company committed to building powerful, user friendly, cost-effective products that can be used by anyone, from an experienced developer to a computer "newbie" to improve efficiency, lower hardware costs, and reduce operating expenses. The company’s products all feature hypervisor technology for strong, stable virtual machines, and an intuitive web-like interface that facilitates zero-training operation. Additionally, Parallels solutions fully support Intel Virtualization Technology architecture, which is optimized to provide superior virtual machine performance. The company is rapidly growing and employs a global team of experienced technical and business professionals. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.
Media/Analyst Contact
Benjamin H. Rudolph
Marketing Manager, Parallels
703.234.5549 (direct)
202.437.6701 (mobile)
ben.rudolph@parallels.com
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Posted by
jiggyone, The Fresh Tux
On Monday the 27th, March 2006 at 08:56 AM (CST) |
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Is this product any good? I'm an advid VMware user, but I've heard a lot of buzz about Parallels. Anyone tried it?
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