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Fascinating … your very comprehensive list does not contain the only VMware products I have ever cared about: workstation and fusion.

by rsync 4y ago

parasubvert 4y ago
good point… I don’t think they’re billion dollar businesses though. Probably hundreds of millions? Hard to say as I don’t think VMware publishes this info
maire 4y ago
Workstation and fusion were never big money makers. They were more of a labor of love. I joined VMware just after the release of Businessware 2.0 - which I agree was 14 years ago. The big money maker was vmotion because it allowed datacenters to decouple the server from the underlying hardware. Ever after, the money was in the datacenter products.
- maire 4y ago
  correction: VSphere 2.0 not Businessware 2.0 (wrong company). For some reason I could not edit my post so I had to reply to my post.
IshKebab 4y ago
And has a lot of "similar to {thing I have actually heard of}"
- TMWNN 4y ago
  It reminds me of the first episode of Saturday Night Live after the original 1975 cast all left. In the first episode, the new cast did a sketch in which they each described themselves as a version/variant of/similar to a member of the old cast. (Everyone was fired after that season, except for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.)
manwe150 4y ago
I think both of those are free now for consumer usage, for at least a couple years now?
- reiichiroh 4y ago
  No not the Pro versions still
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walterbell 4y ago
A few years ago, most of the US dev team for workstation was laid off in favor of a non-US team.
TMWNN 4y ago
You run a well-known online backup company and I don't, but my reaction was exactly the same: The only VMware products I've ever cared about are Workstation and Fusion, neither of which is on the list. On the one hand, it's pretty cool that VMware has pivoted so successfully over the past 15 years from being solely focused on a hypervisor (or, I suppose in modern terminology, "self-hosted cloud") business that the cloud largely supplanted. On the other hand, it's sad for someone like me, who used Workstation to run VMs at home (I moved to VirtualBox), and have thought at times about spinning up ESXi.
- Turbots 4y ago
- edgyquant 4y ago
  > a well-known online backup company and I don't What’s up with this? Did their company steal the name of the tool rsync?
  - rsync 4y ago
    In early 2006 I asked the original author and the current maintainer for their blessing to use the domain "rsync.net" for (re)incorporating the offsite backup component of the ISP I started in 2001[1]. I gave them right of first refusal, etc., and they said my use of "rsync.net" as the name of the company, domain name, etc., was acceptable. [1] "JohnCompanies"
fuy 4y ago
their main business for two decades has been datacenter virtualization. Individual developers don't care about it, sure, but it's a huge software business.

Fascinating … your very comprehensive list does not contain the only VMware products I have ever cared about: workstation and fusion.

by rsync 4y ago

Fascinating … your very comprehensive list does not contain the only VMware products I have ever cared about: workstation and fusion.

parasubvert 4y ago

good point… I don’t think they’re billion dollar businesses though. Probably hundreds of millions? Hard to say as I don’t think VMware publishes this info

maire 4y ago

Workstation and fusion were never big money makers. They were more of a labor of love. I joined VMware just after the release of Businessware 2.0 - which I agree was 14 years ago. The big money maker was vmotion because it allowed datacenters to decouple the server from the underlying hardware. Ever after, the money was in the datacenter products.

maire 4y ago
correction: VSphere 2.0 not Businessware 2.0 (wrong company). For some reason I could not edit my post so I had to reply to my post.

IshKebab 4y ago

And has a lot of "similar to {thing I have actually heard of}"

TMWNN 4y ago
It reminds me of the first episode of Saturday Night Live after the original 1975 cast all left. In the first episode, the new cast did a sketch in which they each described themselves as a version/variant of/similar to a member of the old cast. (Everyone was fired after that season, except for Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo.)

manwe150 4y ago

I think both of those are free now for consumer usage, for at least a couple years now?

reiichiroh 4y ago
No not the Pro versions still
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  [deleted]

walterbell 4y ago

A few years ago, most of the US dev team for workstation was laid off in favor of a non-US team.

TMWNN 4y ago

You run a well-known online backup company and I don't, but my reaction was exactly the same: The only VMware products I've ever cared about are Workstation and Fusion, neither of which is on the list. On the one hand, it's pretty cool that VMware has pivoted so successfully over the past 15 years from being solely focused on a hypervisor (or, I suppose in modern terminology, "self-hosted cloud") business that the cloud largely supplanted. On the other hand, it's sad for someone like me, who used Workstation to run VMs at home (I moved to VirtualBox), and have thought at times about spinning up ESXi.

Turbots 4y ago
edgyquant 4y ago
> a well-known online backup company and I don't What’s up with this? Did their company steal the name of the tool rsync?
- rsync 4y ago
  In early 2006 I asked the original author and the current maintainer for their blessing to use the domain "rsync.net" for (re)incorporating the offsite backup component of the ISP I started in 2001[1]. I gave them right of first refusal, etc., and they said my use of "rsync.net" as the name of the company, domain name, etc., was acceptable. [1] "JohnCompanies"

fuy 4y ago

their main business for two decades has been datacenter virtualization. Individual developers don't care about it, sure, but it's a huge software business.