08 July , 06:37 PM
I thought I'd collect and share links to news and blogs about VMware, following the departure of founder Diane Greene earlier today. Without adding everything up and throwing it into a blender, it appears that most observers see this as a blown play by EMC. I'm not so sure. The timing isn't very good, but VMware probably needs a more operations focused leader at this stage of their development. Whatever, it sure adds a lot of mystery to the industry at a time when things tend to get a little sleepy.
The New York Times
The Register
TechCrunchit
Rich Brambley VM/ETC blog
The LoneSysAdmin
StorageZilla it will be interesting to see what he says about this in the days to come
Todd Bishop - with a Microsoftian perspective
Om Malik's blog on Giga OM
Richard Jones at The Burton Group
Tom Curlin's comments on virtualization.com. Perhaps the worst case of bad timing in a long while
Dave Raffo at Storage Soup
A MIcrosoft will rule the world blog from Search Virtualization
Scott Lowe's blog
The Zerowait blog
Mark Bowker from ESG
Zilla-man, Like a volcano, the explosion has a different dynamic for those closest to the blast, but for distant observers, the fallout is always much more interesting. People are going to watch what happens to VMware, and by extension EMC, and wonder what might have been. That's humans for you.
Like Mount Doom exploding with fury the moment came and went Marc, but it all happened behind closed doors.
Sorry dude. ;)