The plain vmware
tag adds no value as we never get any questions about the company. When it is used it is usually used in error and in place of a product specific tag which would be more useful. This usually leads to people being asked to clarify which product they are using so that the correct answer(s) can be given.
EDIT:
Some stats from the Feb 10 odata release
1648 questions have the vmware
or a vmware-*
tag. 536 of these don't have the plain vmware
tag so they are OK. Of the remaining 1112, 375 have the vmware and vmware-*
tags - these could be removed easily by a dev.
This leaves 737 that have a plain vmware
tag.
There are 461 with a plain vmware
tag which mention ESX(i) in the body.
Bump
All the questions with vmware have been re-tagged over the past week or so. Can we please get this tag black-listed now?