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My understanding is they gutted the entire fusion and workstation teams (firing all US employees), and shipped it over to China for long-term maintenance. That blog post kind of confirms it... the core team working on ESX is in the US, the "Hosted-UI" - fusion and workstation teams - all appear to be Chinese. To say that the core ESX components are the base and the Hosted-UI team just puts a UI on top seems preposterous to me. If that's the case I would expect a lockstep release of all the products, and the same feature functionality if all they're doing is adding a GUI. That's simply not the case.