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Recently VMWare announced they were making VMWare Workstation Pro free for private use which was really exciting.
blogs.vmware.com
Turns out that was after the agreement for Broadcom to buy them out.
Broadcom have a bit of a reputation in the industry, they've already announced that they're rolling all products basically into one subscription, so doesn't matter if you only want a subset of products, you have to subscribe for the full range. Not only that, they've heavily increased prices by 20% with no benefit for that.
VMWare have lost a lot of customers as more and more people move to public cloud services like Azure and AWS, but there are a lot of niche agencies, especially in government where they're required to have a hybrid cloud structure, some still require having a private cloud, and VMWare was always the best option for those cases.
I do suspect that more and more people with the skillset will be looking to bring more and more services away from public subscription services and hosting it at home, these days, PC's are so powerful, and we've got HUGE multi core CPU's that can easily handle multi VM platforms running 24/7. VMWare was such a great option for this.
There are other options around, of course you've got Microsoft Hyper-V built into Windows Pro, Virtual Box is a really good option for home use. And of course nowadays, it's so easy to just run applications in a Docker container, something I still need to check out.
Recently VMWare announced they were making VMWare Workstation Pro free for private use which was really exciting.
VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use
VMware Desktop Hypervisor products Fusion and Workstation are used by millions of people every day to run virtual machines on their Windows, Linux and Mac computers. They give users the ability to quickly and easily build “local virtual” environments to install other operating systems, learn...
blogs.vmware.com
Turns out that was after the agreement for Broadcom to buy them out.
Broadcom have a bit of a reputation in the industry, they've already announced that they're rolling all products basically into one subscription, so doesn't matter if you only want a subset of products, you have to subscribe for the full range. Not only that, they've heavily increased prices by 20% with no benefit for that.
VMWare have lost a lot of customers as more and more people move to public cloud services like Azure and AWS, but there are a lot of niche agencies, especially in government where they're required to have a hybrid cloud structure, some still require having a private cloud, and VMWare was always the best option for those cases.
I do suspect that more and more people with the skillset will be looking to bring more and more services away from public subscription services and hosting it at home, these days, PC's are so powerful, and we've got HUGE multi core CPU's that can easily handle multi VM platforms running 24/7. VMWare was such a great option for this.
There are other options around, of course you've got Microsoft Hyper-V built into Windows Pro, Virtual Box is a really good option for home use. And of course nowadays, it's so easy to just run applications in a Docker container, something I still need to check out.