VMware Reports 300 in Program

SAN FRANCISCO -- At VMworld 2007,VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced that more than 300 academic

institutions are participating in its Academic Program in which its products

and resources are available free-of-charge to qualified academicinstitutions for research and teaching and its source code is made available to qualified

academic institutions for research and publication.

As part of the program, VMware plans to release an online Academic Community Center later this year that will feature courseware, research papers, discussion groups and other valuable resources designed to enhance research and instruction in the area of virtualization. Registration willbe free and anyone who elects to join the Academic Community Center will beable to download content as well as share their own content with the Community.

"VMware itself grew out of academic research and many of our earliest customers were at universities. The VMware Academic Program is our way of contributing back to academia by making our products availablefree-of-charge for research and teaching," said Dr. Stephen Herrod, Vice President of Technology Development at VMware. "We have more than 300 academicinstitutions worldwide taking advantage of the program today, and we look forward to working with them and others to further accelerate research in the area of virtualization." Participants in the VMware Academic Program include Boston University, Brigham Young, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia University, Cornell, Duke, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Princeton, Purdue, Rochester Institute of Technology, Singapore Polytechnic,

Stanford, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tokyo Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Genoa, University of Toronto and University of Waterloo. "The VMware Academic Program is of particular benefit to both researchand teaching of operating systems concepts," said Dr. Richard West, Associate Professor of Computer Science Department at Boston University. "I have used VMware software in my operating systems courses for several years, so that students can safely develop kernel-level policies and mechanisms in avirtual machine environment without disrupting the underlying host operating system.In the same regard, VMware software provides a convenient sandbox forrapidly prototyping novel system ideas as part of our ongoing research."

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