VMWare joins linux foundation

[Methuselah]

[It didn't see this posted before but who knows....anyway]

The well known virtualisation company has become a linux foundation member.

Press release:
http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2008/08/06/vmware-joins-the-linux-foundation/

News story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602006.html

It's not really earth shattering news but it requires a little financial commitment and is surely a statement of some intent to continue to support the platform.

The rest of members list is here:
http://linuxfoundation.org/en/Members

Platinum members pay a $500,000/year membership fee.
Gold members pay a $100,000/year and Silver between $5000 and 20,000.

[toupeiro]

Awesome! Its only right that they should. ESX installation and bootup looks a LOT like RHEL. You can't very well keep ignoring what works well enough to base your enterprise product on. :-D

[Sporkman]

RH & Canonical are only silver members... Probably because they're much smaller companies (hence don't have the money to throw around like IBM, Oracle, etc).

[Methuselah]

RH & Canonical are only silver members... Probably because they're much smaller companies (hence don't have the money to throw around like IBM, Oracle, etc).

Yeah, and even among silver members the amount of dues is related to the amount of employees. Only larger silver members (> 5000 employees) pay the $20,000/year.