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number6 [soylentnews.org] writes:

EMC Corportaion, new owner of VMware, has pulled the plug on the Hosted UI development team responsible for products such as Workstation and Fusion.
It seems that this action by EMC Corp was purely corporate reshuffling to appease Wall Street and Private Equity financial backers; the Workstation and Fusion products were incidental casualties.
A former member of the team has written a blog article giving full details and insights on this decision...along with a eulogy on the Hosted UI development team [1].
You may also like to read the ArsTechnica article on this [2].

[1] http://blog.chipx86.com/2016/01/26/a-tribute-to-vmware-workstation-fusion-and-hosted-ui/ [chipx86.com]
[2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/vmware-fusion-workstation-team-culled-in-company-restructure/ [arstechnica.com]

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