VMware is joining as a Platinum member, which according to the OSSI Website, entails paying an unspecified annual membership fee, participating in advisory boards, planning events and providing ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

Much of the agonizing over Oracle's purchase of Sun (and mySQL) lies in the fact that Oracle is a closed-source, proprietary company. This fact has split the open source industry from the open source ...

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware recently hired open source industry veteran Chip Childers to be its chief open source officer, continuing what has been a years-long process by the vendor to elevate its ...

SAN FRANCISCO — VMware hasn’t traditionally had the best reputation in the open source community, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger admits. In fact, he sums it up in one word: “Bad.” But VMware’s on a mission ...

VMware Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions, announced what it calls the first open source client for virtual desktop infrastructure. VMware says that the product, View Open Client, enables IT ...