Syindication
Godzilla and King Kong Duke it Out in Virtualization Land
With all the smaller players in the Virtualization game suddenly feeling like extras on the set of a badly-animated Godzilla movie, VMWare has fired it’s visionary CEO and looks to lose one of it’s most valuable engineers (her husband) all at a time when Microsoft is spooling up it’s Hyperbole-V engine to take on VMWare directly.
Best article about this so far is from the Register: EMC CEO’s Ego Has Cost Investors Billions, where the situation is laid out along withe resulting consequences for VMWare. Basically it looks like VMWare’s CEO was axed by EMC’s CEO over personality differences, with Paul Maritz (Yes, THAT Paul Maritz so recently of Microsoft) taking the helm.
It’s a good time to be XEN-based, I can tell you, the momentum is rolling along and customers are deploying very successfully, maybe we’ll have a more level playing field soon, what with all the furor amongst the giants of the industry.
RossB
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