&quot;This seems a strategic exit by VMWare to cede all desktop-hosted virtualization markets to competitors.&quot;<p>It&#x27;s more boring than that.  They&#x27;ve decided to offshore the jobs.  The management probably believes these products are at market saturation anyway, so beyond attrition to container-oriented solutions like Docker, it&#x27;s not likely Fusion or Workstation will actually go away or feel that different.<p>What&#x27;s disappointing is that this team could have been everything Docker or Vagrant is - repeatable environments and workflow for developers.