Talk:Parallels, Inc.

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  • Expand the company history section. Right now it begins with the SWsoft acquisition. What happened before that? When was the company founded, by whom, and why?
  • Turn the company history into flowing prose. Lists are ugly.
  • Ditto for the products section.
  • Add the Compressor products to the Products section.

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[edit] Article problems

This page reads like an advertisement, and makes no case for notability. --Maru (talk) Contribs 01:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I would disagree - although the wording of the text does look like it was copied from a datasheet - it is still helpful and beneficial, especially since VMWare and the rest do NOT yet have a Macintosh Virtualization solution.-Eric V

Having read the article I can see nothing biased. I want to know something about Parallels and it tells me. I'd only have a problem if the alternatives weren't mentioned. ~Jeff Kirkland

I agree that the article isn't objective: the word 'embraces' is an example. It may be informative but it needs to be rewritten in more objective language, with references. - Ryan L

Yet another clear example of the ridiculousness of the entire NPOV issue on Wiki. The page is for a company, Parallels Inc. So WHAT if it reads like an advertisement, no one asked you to come here. If you think some info should be added, add it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 219.88.88.230 (talk • contribs) 02:04, June 22, 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong City, what else is wrong?

Parallels is a Renton, Washington company, not a Herdon, Virginia company. Their website says copyright 1999-2006, this article says the company was established in 2005. Acurracy of this article is clearly to be questioned.

Is there any solid information out there to be added to this article? Jmcglinn 01:07, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, from [1] we definitely know they weren't established in 2005, as they were purchased by SWsoft about three years ago (I wish they'd been a little more specific). Based on [2], I'm going with 1995 as the establishment date for the infobox but I wish it too was more specific. Also from that I fixed the headquarters location to Renton. -- Hawaiian717 19:00, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Guys, please fix it: It's written that Parallels was established in 2005, but in the box that describes the company it's written that the company was established in 1995. --195.214.232.10 (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger

Strongly Against. The different product lines from parallels (one for mac, the other for linux/windows) should remain separate and have their own articles. They were together in the past and it lead to confusion between which product was being discussed, the software infoboxes couldn't be used due to differing product, along with general readability issues. They are two distinct products and should not be combined again.

Further, why would complete product information be combined into the parallels (the company) article? For example, when you go to the Intel wiki, it doesn't give a detailed account on every product Intel has ever made, rather a brief overview of a product with a link to the main article on the actual product is given. If the person who suggested the merger wishes to do something similar to that, I believe that would be fine. However, the idea of merging the complete articles for Parallels Workstation and even Parallels Desktop for Mac into one long article is a very ill conceived idea. The workstation and desktop article used to be one, and had to be split up. They're two distinct products with wholly different features now and require fully independent articles to maintain a certain level of readability and quality.

I'm a frequent editor of parallels desktop for mac article and do not believe this would be helpful for all the reasons stated above. In sum, I believe it'd be quite unhelpful and will led to confusion in readability all over again. Lastly, it irks me when people who don't contribute frequently to a group of articles suggests radical changes. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parallels Acquisition of ModernGigabyte

The acquisition did not take place in March as the article suggests, only the announcement. Acquisition took place in mid-January of the same year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.253.118.20 (talk) 03:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)