I have been wondering about what the letters ESX stand for in VMware’s core virtual machine software, VMware ESX(i).
But it’s not what you think it would be. I though it was something to do with computer, at least something techinical about virtualization, but nope.
According to Wikipedia, ESX means:
ESX allegedly stands for “Elastic Sky X”
According to this VMware Developer document, the glossary defines it here: