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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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Consumer-impact summary

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  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the VMWare category.

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Products

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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.

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