Why do successful companies insist on destroying the products that made them great? VMWare Server 1 was wonderful software. It wasn’t perfect, but it was perfectly usable. VMWare Server 2 traded in the nice and snappy Win32 for a craptastic web-ui, and doesn’t even bother to install the required plug-ins when it installs the server. The whole product seems like it was designed by a 5th grade slashdot disciple. It’s all about web2.0 flashiness, and completely misses the point of being something someone would want to use.
I’m kicking myself for not keeping a copy of the last 1.x update. Hopefully I can find one out there somewhere.