Even as Broadcom-owned VMWare makes more products free for commercial use, some customers have complained about price hikes and its current subscription push.

It just became free for commercial use along with earlier permission for personal use, so Tom Fenton shares some of the cool things you can do with this venerable virtualization platform.

VMware is now free, and the paid versions are no longer available. That doesn't mean any of their functionalities will disappear.

After bundling VMware products into pricey subscriptions, Broadcom is now offering VMware Fusion and Workstation for free.

And yes, that does include commercial use in production Broadcom has made its desktop hypervisors freeware – even for production use. Not open source, but free stuff is still good, right?… Broadcom's announcement may be bad news for Oracle’s VirtualBox desktop hypervisor,