Wow, possibly no more VMWare Workstation? Kind of an end of an era, but I guess the pressure from VirtualBox etc is pretty high.
Even though I preferred it (integration with ESXi was nice, and it felt better) I couldn't justify buying it.
Let's spell out the obvious: People, like me, use virtualbox etc. for free instead of paying for vmware fusion / workstation. If the free products didn't exist, vmware would be making much much more money on licenses for worstation etc, and developers would still be getting paid to work on the vmware products.
Free is great for people like you, for others it is also regarded as the value they pay for it.
1. VMware was giving out a free product too (Player).
2. As chipx86 pointed out on his blog post, VMware Workstation and Fusion were profitable.
Many people I know who were serious about managing their VMs virtual networks were using Virtual Box.