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czscout ◴[] No.42309415[source]
It really does seem as though Broadcom is entirely shifting VMware's focus the the top 5 or 10 percent of customers who probably make up the vast majority of the actual profits. The message they've delivered time and time again to businesses outside that group is pretty simple "go away" price.
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1. danieldk ◴[] No.42309667[source]
It seems like it, making VMware Fusion and Workstation free seems to fit with that strategy.

A bit of nostalgia: my first VMware product was VMware Express for Linux. It was a stripped down version of Workstation (probably 2.0?) that could only run Windows 95/98:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124081300/http://www.vmware...

Does anyone remember Win4Lin 9x (based on SCO Merge)?