VMWare is running scared of Hyper-V, which is good enough now for most use cases and comes free with a Windows server license. For Windows shops, SMB&#x27;s, etc this is a no-brainer.<p>On the cloud front, no one uses their expensive product. You&#x27;d use KVM, Xen, Proxmox, etc that you had the source for and could modify. If you&#x27;re running linux you might as well run a linux hypervisor.<p>I suspect these layoffs were rational moves for a changing industry. We&#x27;re testing Hyper-V at work to get away from VMware licensing, which is fairly stiff, for the few thing that aren&#x27;t on the cloud&#x2F;VPS. The industry is changing again and the room for big VMware shops is smaller than it was just a few years ago. There&#x27;s way too much economic sense to move to cloud providers instead of hosting your own.