Fusion and Workstation teams laid off.

[psydii]

A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI | ChipLog

[andyturpie]

There's some sort of sad irony of "physical" no longer being required...

[SHimmer45]

used vmware player ALOT in earlier versions, newer versions removed a few bits to get people to upgrade to workstation, so ended up using Virtual Box.

[Norphy]

Huh.

 

I suppose that with Client Hyper-V on Windows 8.1+, Workstation is more of a niche product but considering there is no equivalent hypervisor layer on OS X, I'm surprised that they're giving Fusion the heave-ho.

 

Unless they consider Parallels to be that far ahead of them, either in terms of marketshare or features.

[Arthur]

considering there is no equivalent hypervisor layer on OS X, I'm surprised that they're giving Fusion the heave-ho.

Apple include a hypervisor in OS X 10.10 onwards, although most people would need a front-end such as Veertu to actually use it.

 

http://veertu.com

[Arthur]

www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/27/vmware_fusion_and_workstation_development_team_fired/

 

Thelayoff.com also features former and current employees lamenting the decision, on the grounds of having been fired, or feeling that VMware has made a silly decision.

 

The site also contains posts from purported VMware employees suggesting that work on the two products will continue in China.

 

The Register asked VMware to confirm the layoffs and to explain the future of the products and were told: “We can confirm that the restructuring activities will not impact the existence of any current product lines.”

[psydii]

We could lay off the all the staff here and it would not impact the existence of the school buildings.

 

 

The products are dead. Software/Product development does not survive the complete termination of the team responsible for it and the offshoring of responsibilities to a new one.

[rich_tech]

I looked at this stuff when I first had my Mac, shame on that though I think I can see why from my experience on a Mac, Parallels were ahead of them and cheaper too I found, still an excellent product though which had its uses.

 

I think apple have gotten around it easily these days though by putting in the Hypervisor and also allowing bootcamp quite painlessly, thats what I settled on with my Mac in the end for the rare occasions I need windows (usually the wifes iTunes setup to keep her music seperate)

 

I think its a shame as VMWare is still better at running linux than Hyper-V