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VMware is run by Paul Maritz from Microsoft, who has brought more former executives of Microsoft to the company's management. The impact is covered in some of the following posts.

2007

Virtualisation Debate Revisited: VMWare, Citrix, Xen, Novell, and Microsoft

Watch and Learn How Microsoft Hijacks Rival Companies by Proxy

2008

Theory: Why EMC Gave VMWare to Microsoft (Employee)

Maritz and Tucci’s Microsoft Slog Against VMware

Novell, rPath, Citrix/Xen, VMware: Microsoft Virtualisation Axis?

Microsoft’s Latest Ugly Tactics Against Google, Yahoo, and VMware

Quick Mention: Microsoft Launches Anti-VMware Web Site

IDC, Gartner and Yankee Group’s Latest Press Attack on Customer’s Competitors

Will Microsoft and Citrix Fight GNU/Linux and VMWare Together? (Updated)

How Microsoft Uses Novell to Fight GNU/Linux, Xen to Fight VMWare and GNU/Linux

As Yahoo Proxy War Looms, VMWare and Nokia Return to One’s Mind

Is Microsoft ‘Pulling a Netscape’ on Flash, Firefox, VMWare?

Microsoft Grabs Anything and Everything Away from Rivals

2009

What is Going on at VMware?

Microsoft ‘Inherits’ VMware, Republican National Committee, Democrat Influence Also

Fake Charities, Microsoft-Lenovo, and Microsoft-VMware

Gartner Group Pretends Only Microsoft Competes with VMware, Novell Helps Microsoft Too

Microsoft Keeps ‘Taking Over’ VMware

Virtualization Makes For Strange Bedfellows

No Point to Microsoft’s New Datacentres, Microsoft-dominated VMware Comes to Redmond’s Back Garden

How Microsoft (with Novell) Subverts the Virtualisation Space to Harm Red Hat

Openbravo Should Avoid VMware’s Mistakes

2010

Microsoft-manned VMware Still Against the GPL

Former Microsoft Partner/Ally Gives Microsoft Competitor (Zimbra) to Former Microsoft Employees

VMware’s Parent Company Promotes Microsoft Exchange, So What About Zimbra?

Another University Dumps Novell Mail, VMware’s Parent Helps Zimbra’s Direct Rival

Rumour: Microsoft Executives-Run Company to Buy Novell

Microsoft Executives-Run VMware Harms GNU/Linux and Wants to Grab Ruby on Rails

Further Debating the Idea of VMware Buying Novell

Shocker: Gartner and Forrester Recommend Their Client Microsoft; Former Microsoft Executives (VMware) Defend Windows

Fresh Rumours/Speculations About VMware Buying Novell

VMware May Ruin SUSE and Harm GNU/Linux at Large If Acquisition Goes Through

VMB_ware — Now Headed by Former Microsoft Executives — is Claimed to be Promoting Microsoft DirectX Inside Linux

2012

Microsoft Occupying Competing Companies

2019

The Openwashing of VMware, Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (in Turn Sponsored by VMware)

Serial GPL Violators Fancy Being Called 'Open Source' and the Linux Foundation is Happy to Oblige

2020

The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator

Meme: VMware Violates the GPL. But It Compensates With 'Search and Replace'...

2022

Latest Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) Patterns Against “Linux” (the Real Issue is Proprietary Software)

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