SearchOpenSource: VMware Exec: On Free Specs, Virtualization's Boost for Linux | Linux Today

SearchOpenSource: VMware Exec: On Free Specs, Virtualization’s Boost for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 3, 2006

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“Why did VMware decide to share its core virtual machine disk
format specification?

Dan Chu: People with large enterprise
environments are fully standardizing on VMware; but they also
depend on a whole set of key vendors–like BMC and Symantec–to
provide other functions to do such things as manipulate, update,
patch and back up data and systems…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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