Now that VMware's COO and CEO positions are filled by former Softies, yet another Microsoft employee joins the management

Shortly after a new appointment at VMWare, the two companies make an agreement

VMware - under new management from Microsoft - relicenses SpringSource dm Server to avoid the GPL

We wrote some days ago about Microsoft’s “Slog” against VMware. This campaign continues and reaches new heights under a new domain which Microsoft now operates. It’s www.vmwarecostswaytoomuch.com (VMware Costs Too Much). Is this how a publicly-traded company should behave?

Sources say VMware is mulling a partnership, investment or outright acquisition of Alfresco — the open source enterprise content management system. The potential reason: Alfresco would potentially allow VMware to attack Microsoft SharePoint, which generates more than $1 billion in annual revenues for Microsoft. Here are the details.

A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was "Wouldn't that be horrible for Novell's Linux?"

This tutorial outlines how to upgrade VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.0. VMware has recently released its new VM hypervisor product, VMware ESXi 5.0. VMware is replacing its current ESX model with ESXi and the biggest change (between ESX and ESXi) is the architecture.

Red Hat is making plans to beef up its virtualization management software so it can compete with VMware on a more equal footing in the future.

Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.