Data-storage giant EMC Corp. will buy VMware for $635 million. VMWare is the leading vendor of “virtual hardware infrastructure,” which allows data center managers to partition servers (and desktops) into seperately-managed parts. VMWare is also important for the OS community because it helps a user run several OSes simultaneously on one machine. EMC’s acquisition will certainly steer the product even more toward the enterprise space. Wonder what will happen to the workstation product?
I did not think that VMWare would sell for a long while yet. EMC buying them could be good, better than M$.
VMWARE runs nice on Linux, wish they has a solaris version.
Give EMC’s price structure for their other products… You would be well advised to hang on really tight to your existing versions. I can only imagine this just became a VERY pricey bit of software.
Seems to be a good price. Wish I had some of that stock. The fact that MS bought the competition was the real reason. They could have make a long term contract if they just needed the product.
Goofy that the idea of using a virtal machine is better than using a real machine.
Linux users really need VMWare to run Windows to make a half-baked desktop complete
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vmware&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-…
Sample:
LOG >>>>>
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|DICT — GLOBAL SETTINGS
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|MStat: Creating Stat vm.uptime
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|GuestOSId = 0x5010
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|Msg_Hint hint.guestos.xp (shown)
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|Disk: Open(/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdk)
flags=0x0=.
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|BigCOWDisk_OpenFromParent: Big Cow Disk
/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdk
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|BigCOWDisk_OpenFromParent: COWDisk is Big capable
Oct 10 04:16:24:
VMX|COWDisk_OpenFromP(/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdk) flags 0x0=
diskNum=0
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|FILEIO: Reverting to buffered IO for file
/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdkCOWDISK: Disk
/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdk Granularity = 128
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|COWDISK: Open: /opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro.vmdk
has Generation number 1502670687.
Oct 10 04:16:24:
VMX|COWDisk_OpenFromP(/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro-02.vmdk) flags 0x0=
diskNum=1
Oct 10 04:16:24: VMX|FILEIO: Reverting to buffered IO for file
/opt/vmware/winXPPro/winXPPro-02.vmdkCOWDISK: Disk
I know I will stop buying the Workstation product, because EMC will most likely stop development of it, or price it out of reach. Guess MS/Connectix will be picking up my business, unfortunate for me as VirtualPC is an inferior product as it stands now.