VMware Launches Developer Network
VMware introduced the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) on Monday. The company called VMTN a "virtual infrastructure resource center" intended for developers and other IT professionals and is positioned as an alternative to traditional means of developing, distributing and deploying software.
VMTN capitalizes on VMware's virtual machine expertise to offer software developers pre-build application environments that contain ready-to-run applications packaged within virtual machines. Software vendors including BEA Systems, MySQL AB, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat are among the first to participate and make their software available within pre-built virtual machines.
VMware develops collaborative development software where users can use a library of virtual machines for 32 and 64-bit x86 operating systems to virtualize, rapidly provision, evaluation installations and build best practice virtual machines before committing changes to production environments.
Customers may subscribe to VMTN at a cost of $299 USD annually per users. Subscription benefits include: VMware Workstation, VMware GSX Server and a developer version of VMware ESX Server with Virtual SMP for team collaboration, and VMware P2V Assistant for migrating physical systems to virtual machines.
"VMware virtual machine capabilities have become indispensable to developers over the last six years," said Diane Greene, president of VMware. "Huge numbers of developers are leveraging the entire suite of groundbreaking VMware products for development, test and on through staging and production. They're using the virtual machine container as a better way to capture their multitude of software configurations. VMTN takes this capability to the next level."
More information can be found at the VMware store, as well as the VIP Reseller Network and distribution partners Web site.