And cost VMWare any 'soft influence' they had. People tinker with free stuff in their own time a lot. Some of those people would have sway in what products a b

And cost VMWare any 'soft influence' they had. People tinker with free stuff in their own time a lot. Some of those people would have sway in what products a business purchases in future, like virtualisation software for example. People go with what they know.