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EMC To Acquire VMware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ch-ch-ch-changes dept.

kma writes "According to The Register, virtual machine software maker (and my employer) VMware Inc. will be acquired by storage giant EMC, pending the usual approval process." The article explains: "VMware makes the industry's premier set of partitioning tools for running both Windows and Linux on a single server and running multiple applications on a single system. EMC plans to grab the privately held VMware for $635 million in cash."

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  1. Efficient Storage by davidstrauss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Emulation seems completely the opposite direction I would want to take data storage, especially since performance and reliability are top concerns. How does adding an emulation layer enable the data environment?

    1. Re:Efficient Storage by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      no no nooo...

      Vmware is the ONLY way many of us can reverse engineer hardware for linux use.

      I reverse engineered a serial analog data stream from a PH meter, Refractometer, Ion meter and conductivity meter in a lab I worked at for use with linux by using vmware and running the closed app under windows 95 and sniffing the serial data stream.

      VMware is the hardware hacker's dream... It's a way to pry the data you need from the idiotic corperate world.

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