Quoting from the VMware official announcement:
VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that VMware ACE has won the 2006 Readers Choice Merit Award from Visual Studio Magazine in the Security and Copy Protection category.
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“Visual Studio Magazine’s readers are high-level enterprise experts who know that third-party components and tools are essential to successful enterprise solutions,” said Jeff Hadfield, vice president of publishing at Fawcette Technical Publications, publisher of Visual Studio Magazine. “Our influential mix of readers—application architects, dev managers and senior enterprise developers—are integral to the buying process in their organizations. For VMware ACE to be recognized by this group of IT professionals means it has earned respect in the community since its release.”…
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