I&#x27;m pretty VMWare&#x27;s stock devalued it self.
VMW Workstation is still the best out there in desktop visualization, but VMware has been losing market share to Microsoft and FOSS software the likes of Xen for some years now.<p>HyperV is essentially free in the MSFT ecosystem, and thanks to Amazon and other cloud providers opensource hyper-visors especially those based on Xen and KVM these days are mature enough and have a good enough eco-system for large scale enterprise deployments.
Docker and other containerization solutions have also took a big chunk of VMWares potential market space in the enterprise market.<p>Add to that that allot of VMWare&#x27;s technology the likes of ThinApp never panned out really and the free version of vSphere Hypervisor has now enough &quot;enterprise&quot; features to be an actual viable solution for production VMWare hasn&#x27;t been looking that good for quite a while.<p>They still make great products but I&#x27;m not sure they had a clear business plan and a killer app for a while now.