VMware

VMware is run by Paul Maritz from Microsoft, who has brought more former executives of Microsoft to the company's management. The impact is covered in some of the following posts.


 * Theory: Why EMC Gave VMWare to Microsoft (Employee)
 * What is Going on at VMware?
 * Maritz and Tucci’s Microsoft Slog Against VMware
 * Microsoft-manned VMware Still Against the GPL]
 * Microsoft ‘Inherits’ VMware, Republican National Committee, Democrat Influence Also
 * Will Microsoft and Citrix Fight GNU/Linux and VMWare Together? (Updated)
 * How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux
 * As Yahoo Proxy War Looms, VMWare and Nokia Return to One’s Mind
 * Fake Charities, Microsoft-Lenovo, and Microsoft-VMware
 * Virtualisation Debate Revisited: VMWare, Citrix, Xen, Novell, and Microsoft
 * Novell, rPath, Citrix/Xen, VMware: Microsoft Virtualisation Axis?
 * No Point to Microsoft’s New Datacentres, Microsoft-dominated VMware Comes to Redmond’s Back Garden
 * How Microsoft (with Novell) Subverts the Virtualisation Space to Harm Red Hat
 * Openbravo Should Avoid VMware’s Mistakes
 * Microsoft’s Latest Ugly Tactics Against Google, Yahoo, and VMware
 * Quick Mention: Microsoft Launches Anti-VMware Web Site
 * Watch and Learn How Microsoft Hijacks Rival Companies by Proxy
 * Gartner Group Pretends Only Microsoft Competes with VMware, Novell Helps Microsoft Too
 * IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors
 * Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees
 * VMware’s Parent Company Promotes Microsoft Exchange, So What About Zimbra?
 * Another University Dumps Novell Mail, VMware’s Parent Helps Zimbra’s Direct Rival
 * Microsoft Keeps ‘Taking Over’ VMware
 * Is Microsoft ‘Pulling a Netscape’ on Flash, Firefox, VMWare?
 * Microsoft Grabs Anything and Everything Away from Rivals
 * Virtualization Makes For Strange Bedfellows
 * Rumour: Microsoft Executives-Run Company to Buy Novell
 * Microsoft Executives-Run VMware Harms GNU/Linux and Wants to Grab Ruby on Rails
 * Further Debating the Idea of VMware Buying Novell
 * Shocker: Gartner and Forrester Recommend Their Client Microsoft; Former Microsoft Executives (VMware) Defend Windows
 * Fresh Rumours/Speculations About VMware Buying Novell
 * VMware May Ruin SUSE and Harm GNU/Linux at Large If Acquisition Goes Through
 * VMB_ware — Now Headed by Former Microsoft Executives — is Claimed to be Promoting Microsoft DirectX Inside Linux
 * Microsoft Occupying Competing Companies