Talk:RPath

cliches and jargon
Which areas specifically have excessive cliches and jargon? SvenR 15:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of the first two paragraphs. NicM 19:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC).
 * Hmmm...compared to a number of the pages it links to, this page seems no more or less software industry jargon laden. Can you please be more specific, or propose edits that would address the issue you perceive? Bpjadam 15:41, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is much better now, the only thing now I would either define or rephrase is "divergent software development," if I knew what it meant. NicM 15:51, 4 October 2006 (UTC).

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rPath seems to be falling into disuse
The mediawiki appliance, for instance has been retired. The rPath on the VMware site dates back to 2006 with no updates. I attempted communication on the forum but got no response even to a "ping" for attention! —Preceding unsigned comment added by John van v (talk • contribs) 22:32, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I take that back. I was just there and there is a moderator for the forum who is very helpful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by John van v (talk • contribs) 23:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

marketing speak
This article has suddenly filled with marketing-speak and fluff. I don't have time to solve it now. --Enric Naval (talk)4


 * +1, it makes no sense at all from a technical/informative point of view —Ismael Luceno (talk) 03:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

This article is all marketing-speak. I will never understand motivations of marketing people tho, if I don't understand what your idea/product/concept will do for me (and I won't make an effort to understand if you cloak it with marketing fluff) you've just lost those 15 seconds of my attention that would potentially make me your customer... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.250.108.155 (talk) 14:31, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

It's pretty market-ish but on the other hand, if you look at what people these days write and praise on docker, which is re-iterates many of rPaths builder ideas just 10 years later and with millions of marketing dollars I wonder if there was anything ever wrong in this article here. rPath did most of the grunt work and even if it's not known it wouldn't hurt for the 3-4 readers that stumble over this article. If I (followed them early on, *used* their appliances and then saw them get less common, not make it into some vm marketplaces etc, till I forgot them) would write the article it might have a few more references to i.e. redhat, but probably also a list of all the appliacnes they had made at the start. and it would probably sound a lot more marketing that it is now. This company *was* groundbreaking in the early days of virtualization and only didn't catch fire because too few people had the skills to make the most of their ideas. 2001:A60:16A8:DE01:ACA6:5042:186F:2165 (talk) 00:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)