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 agr

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.