VMware buddies with Bitnami to hybridise cloud app templates

Virtzilla's third-party build-out brings it an apps marketplace

One of public cloud's selling points is that vendors make it super-easy to spin up common applications: Amazon Web Services, Azure and Rackspace all operate a "marketplace" in which one can find ready-to-deploy virtual machines for just about whatever takes your fancy. Google calls its version "click-to-deploy"."