SAN FRANCISCO — VMware hasn’t traditionally had the best reputation in the open source community, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger admits. In fact, he sums it up in one word: “Bad.” But VMware’s on a mission ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

Short-term. Long-term, your free open-source competition becomes a highly credible alternative in use by 80% of your former customers. At that point, why should the remaining 20% stick with you?

Yesterday after market close, VMware announced the acquisition of SpringSource, a small private open source software company, for $420 million. Given that SpringSource is private, we don’t know its ...

A large number of VMware users who have opted for an open-source alternative may be operating on outdated software. A report from RunZero claimed VMware users disgruntled with Broadcom's cloud push ...

Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential ...

During the weekend of the OpenInfra Summit Europe in Paris, a whole day was dedicated to VMware migration. Open source developers lined up throughout the day to showcase how their products could be ...

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of ...

Hyperic Inc. is making available its virtualization management solution Hyperic HQ for VMware. According to the company, the solution will enable data centers to consolidate complete discovery, ...

If you need to use virtual machines on Linux, try Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is more reliable than VirtualBox. Virt-Manager is completely free and open-source. I'm a long-time supporter of VirtualBox.