https://mirror.consumerrights.wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=2A02%3A810D%3A548D%3AE500%3A4403%3A7645%3A7E1A%3A5B4AConsumer Rights Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-05-21T14:27:20ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.0https://mirror.consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=VMware&diff=12438VMware2025-04-02T19:04:49Z<p>2A02:810D:548D:E500:4403:7645:7E1A:5B4A: Created page with the most basic information. Desperately needs sources and more details.</p>
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<div>{{InfoboxCompany<br />
| Name = {{PAGENAME}}<br />
| Type =Subsidiary<br />
| Founded =1998<br />
| Industry =Virtualization Software<br />
| Official Website =www.vmware.com<br />
| Logo =QuestionMark.svg<br />
}}VMWare is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. Since Novermber 2023, it is a subsidiary of Broadcom.<br />
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Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against corprorate users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for perpetual licens products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.{{Placeholder box|An introductory paragraph starting with "'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a ...<ref name":0">ref goes here</ref>"}}<br />
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==Consumer-impact summary==<br />
{{Placeholder box|Overview of concerns that arise from the company's conduct regarding (if applicable):<br />
* User freedom<br />
* User privacy<br />
* Business model<br />
* Market control}}<br />
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==Incidents==<br />
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If the company has various incidents listed and/or this page is getting too long, create subsections linking to each incident while linking to the main article and including a short summary. To link to the page use the "Hatnote" or "Main" templates.<br />
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If the company has numerous incidents then format them in a table (see [[Amazon]] for an example). }}<br />
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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].<br />
===Example incident one (''date'')===<br />
{{Main|link to the main article}}<br />
Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).<br />
===Example incident two (''date'')===<br />
...<br />
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==Products==<br />
{{Placeholder box|This is a list of the company's product lines '''with articles on this wiki'''.<br />
* [[Example product line one]] (release date): Short summary of the product's incidents.<br />
* [[Example product line two]] (release date):}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
{{Placeholder box|Link to relevant theme articles or companies with similar incidents.}}<br />
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== Alternatives ==<br />
Alternatives include the popular free and open source project [https://www.proxmox.com/de/ Proxmox], which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.<br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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