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It's frustrating that VMWare is moving toward Flash as a management platform. Their entire 5.5 web console is in Flash.

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Why flash? What advantages do they get with flash that outweigh the negatives?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

VMWare probably has a bunch of enterprise customers stuck using IE7-9, so a modern HTML5 SPA for the admin interface is prohibitively expensive to write and maintain.

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