History of VMware April 27th, 2011 2011 View 4.6 released - Feb.

28th 2010 3rd VMworld Europe held in Copenhagen, Denmark (6,000 attendees) - (Oct. 11th - Oct. 14th) View 4.5 released - Sept. 13th 7th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (17,000 attendees) - (Aug. 30th - Sept. 2nd) vSphere 4.1 released - July 13th Workstation 7.1 released - May 26th Fusion 3.1 released - May 26th 2009 View 4.0 released - Nov. 19th Fusion 3.0 released - Oct. 27th Workstation 7 released - Oct. 27th 6th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (12,500 attendees) vSphere 4.0 Released - May 21st 2nd VMworld Europe held in Cannes, France (4,700 attendees) Converter 4.0 Released 2008 5th VMworld conference held in Las Vegas, NV (14,000 attendees) Fusion 2.0 released Server 2.0 released Workstation 6.5 released ESXi becomes available for free

1st VMworld Europe held in Cannes, France (4,500 attendees) Paul Maritz takes over as CEO from Diane Greene 2007 4th VMworld conference held in San Francisco, CA (10,800 attendees) ESX 3i released - Dec. 20th Fusion 1.0 for Mac released Converter 3.0 released (formerly P2V Assistant) ESX 3.5 & VirtualCenter 2.5 released - Dec. 10th Workstation 6.0 released 2006 3rd VMworld conference (6,700 attendees) VI3 released with ESX 3.0 & VirtualCenter 2.0 - Jun. 15th Server 1.0 released (replaced GSX Server) 2005 2nd VMworld conference (3,500 attendees) Player 1.0 released P2V Assistant 2.0 released Workstation 5.0 & 5.5 released 2004 1st VMworld conference in San Diego, CA (1,400 attendees) ESX 2.5 released GSX Server 3.0 released VMTN technical communities launched - Oct. 27th EMC Acquires VMware 2003

VMware VirtualCenter 1.0 with VMotion Released - Nov. 10th 2001 ESX 1.0 (Elastic Sky X) & GSX 1.0 (Ground Storm X) released Workstation 3.0 released 2000 Workstation 2.0 released 1999 Workstation 1.0 released for Windows & Linux 1998 VMware founded by Diane Greene, Dr. Mendel Rosenblum and Ed Bugnion