after talking with support I was told to file a request here. I'm purposely filing a new one, as there are plenty already that appearantly go unnoted .

For those interested, I did file a support request. Removed the personal info, it's not relevant.

1st answer (requested/informed about vi client for linux):

Hi,

thank you for your Support Request. As I work in Support I cannot
comment on future releases or product development. However we here in Support
have logged feature requests with our Engineering department regarding the
possibility of developing a VI Client for Linux. Each time we have received a
negative answer from Product Management. So for the time being there are no
plans to create and VI Client for Linux.

I hope this answers your question.

Regards

After this answer I requested a (almost) fully webinterface, for most of us I think it would suffice + it would support other OS'es relatively easy as well probably (for the guest console you still need (atleast in firefox) a plugin, don't know how much OS specific code is in there). Got this answer back:

thank you for your input. Again I personally agree with you as I am
writing this mail from Outlook running in a Windows Vm whose sole functions
are Outlook and the VI Client.

With regards to developing the Web Interface so it is as functional as the VI
Client might I recommend suggesting that through our "Feature Request" page
at http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/suggest/product, specifically
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/49061?tstart=0

Please let me know if this answers your question.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Appearantly there are atleast some different minded people in the organisation itself, which might help our cause .

Anyways, please atleast consider the webinterface.