Canonical, VMware: Start of a new wave at Linux Foundation?

Courtesy Enterprise Linux Log  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 16:57

Less than two weeks after VMware Inc ., the proprietary virtualization software leader, signed up for membership in the Linux Foundation , Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu open source software, joined as well.

Of the two, VMware is the more surprising since its software isn’t open source, despite its recent decision to make its ESXi virtualization server available for free .

In fact,...

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