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VMware Opens Up API to Partners

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the virtually-a-department dept.

mstansberry writes "This week VMware opens up its source code to its x86 partners, calling it the best mix of open-source and proprietary. While the general public won't get a look at the source code, the likes of IBM, HP, Red Hat and others will. Releasing an API is a way for a company to bring more people into the fold and to get more applications integrated within the platform. But from the looks of last quarter's financial reports, VMware doesn't need much help getting people on board."

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  1. Doublespeak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So by "best mix of open-source and proprietary", they mean "not open-source at all".

  2. VMware by skintigh2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    In case you were wondering, VMware is an application that lets you run several virtual machines on one host machine, and even set up a virtual network of those machines and bridge it to the real world if you want, allowing honeynets and the such.

    I hate headlines that list some alphabet soup without explaining what the heck it is. I read about 2 years of RSS headlines before seeing an article that mentioned what RSS was.

  3. Re:Not very exciting by andersbergh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Xen requires the guest OS to be ported though. So Xen can't run XP, and other OS's because they are never going to be ported..

  4. Re:Does anyone remember... by bloggins02 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe it will come bundled with Duke Nukem Forever