VMWare

VMWare

Basic information
Founded	1998
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Virtualization Software
Official website	www.vmware.com

VMWare is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. Since November 2023, it is a subsidiary of Broadcom.

Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against corporate users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for perpetual license products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.

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Alternatives

Alternatives include the popular free and open source project Proxmox, which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.