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Virtualization: VMware Joins the Linux Foundation

Promises to make more contributions to the Linux community
By Maureen O'Gara
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August 11, 2008 03:15 PM EDT
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VMware, which seems to be as far from open source as you can get these days, has joined the Linux Foundation, promising to make more contributions to the Linux community.

It's cultivating the Linux crowd as adoption of Linux expands as a result of its position as a platform for cloud computing and in virtualized environments.

VMware has already kicked in the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a paravirtualization interface, as an open specification, collaborated with the Linux kernel community on developing a source-level paravirtualization interface (paravirt-ops) for the Linux kernel.

Last year, it released Open Virtual Machine Tools, the open source implementation of VMware Tools, and createdf the open-vm-tools project.

Published August 11, 2008 – Reads 1,177
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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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