VMware Workstation and Fusion are now for everyone

VMware made its Fusion and Workstation package that creates and manages virtual machines free for personal use earlier this year. Now, the institution announced that arsenic of Monday, it’s free for everyone, including commercialized customers. Also, the Fusion (for Macs) and Workstation (for Windows and Linux) Pro versions are nary longer disposable for purchase.

Broadcom’s $61 cardinal acquisition of VMware successful 2022 was 1 of the biggest tech acquisitions ever. Since then, it has bundled the company’s products to “simplify its portfolio” and dropped galore existing SKUs. It has already announced an extremity to offering VMware perpetual licensing for standalone offerings to push enterprises towards its Cloud Foundation aliases vSphere Foundation subscription products.

However, successful this Business Insider study mentioned by Tom’s Hardware, immoderate business customers claimed they’ve seen prices spike pursuing the acquisition arsenic the institution focuses connected subscriptions and its astir lucrative customers to summation yearly revenue. One unnamed firm customer quoted by BI said their prices accrued by 175 percent and compared the business to being “held for ransom” because of the trouble successful perchance switching to thing else.

Commercial contracts will stay successful effect for businesses, and they will person the aforesaid level of support done the extremity of their contracts. However, VMware is discontinuing its support ticketing for troubleshooting aft that and says alternatively to usage the community, documentation, and support articles disposable online.