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No, VMware is not doomed. They hold a position of extraordinary dominance in the hypervisor market. They're no more doomed by free hypervisors than Microsoft wa
by WaltPurvis 11y ago
No, VMware is not doomed. They hold a position of extraordinary dominance in the hypervisor market. They're no more doomed by free hypervisors than Microsoft was doomed by free versions of Linux.
They don't care about random individuals who want to run a VM on their PCs; that's not where they make money. And where they do make money the pressure from free hypervisors basically amounts to reducing their total monopoly and obscene profits to a mere near-monopoly and healthy profits.
- wslh 11y ago> They don't care about random individuals who want to run a VM on their PCs Even average individuals are random. But beyond this discussion, and adding another argument to the premise, don't you think that VMware is failing in the cloud not having their own AWS/Azure/Google App offering?