[ Thanks to relic for this link.
]
“VMware has announced it is making its virtual machine file
format freely available, with no license or royalties.“Despite the company’s claim that ‘it is committed to supporting
any other open virtual machine disk formats broadly adopted by
customers and working toward converging on open standards in this
area,’ this announcement is clearly motivated by the desire to
ensure that VMware’s virtualisation technologies are at the hub of
a healthy ecosystem of third parties offering a range of
value-added capabilities, such as backup/recovery, provisioning,
performance optimistation, and so forth…”
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.
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.