Jonnala: VMware ESX hypervisor relies heavily on open-source software
Ramana Jonnala · a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:59
Ramana Jonnala is the CEO of Coho Data. He points out that VMware's proprietary ESX hypervisor relies heavily on open-source components like Xen.
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“And guess what, JR, to your point, right, which is the next Cisco VMware sorry, VMware, that's open source too. I mean, literally, if you looked at how much of ESX is based on open source, It's just that, you know, they probably don't come out and claim it right off the bat, right? But it's very, I mean, we come from the zen world, that's our DNA, so we know exactly how, how much of ESX is actually open source, which is good and, you know, ah, good, and that's the direction that things are going.”
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