{"id":13373,"date":"2016-01-30T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T15:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2018-09-27T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:31:58","slug":"vmware-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/vmware-fusion\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Hammond<\/a> (via Craig Hockenberry<\/a> and Paul Haddad<\/a>, comments<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning, the Hosted UI team, responsible for VMware’s Workstation and Fusion products, woke up to find themselves out of a job. These products, despite being award-winning and profitable, are probably not long for this world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Rob<\/a> Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sad about Fusion, it was always my fave. Much more “Mac like” than Parallels with great performance. Will keep using it until I can’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It hasn’t been canceled, but the entire local team is gone. I read something that said future dev is offshored to China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Sean Gallagher<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When contacted to comment, a VMware spokesman said that the company was committed to continuing development and support for Fusion and Workstation and that the company was “transitioning the Fusion and Workstation teams to co-locate” with the rest of the company as part of its reorganization. “Our commitment to Fusion and Workstation products is unchanged,” he said.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, which offered 15 percent of VMware’s stock in a 2007 initial public offering. EMC is in the process of being acquired by Dell, which would give Dell a majority stake in VMware (though the company will remain independent).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Fusion is a great app. I hope it lives on.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: Turning Off Ads in Parallels<\/a>, Parallels Desktop 9 and Parallels Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2016-02-08): Christian Hammond<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

I’d like to share some thoughts and pictures from a few people in our team about what made our team great, and share some comments from some of our users. Keeping it positive here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-09-27): Michael Roy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Fwiw, we’ve restructured since then. The lay-off was a call by 1 person who is no longer with VMware, and should have never happened. I went on a 2 year mission to fix, and we’ve just moved into the vSphere team and are doubling our headcount.<\/p>\n

I’m very excited for the future :)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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