Comments on: VMware: The day after
If VMware ends up getting sucked into its parent, I could only say: You blew it, EMC.
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- by Storagezilla July 9, 2008 4:31 PM PDT
- Full disclosure I'm a blogger who works at EMC.
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- by ghaff July 9, 2008 5:01 PM PDT
- I'm not going to use loaded words like "power play" at least in public. However, it's a fact that VMware is a subsidiary of EMC and that, therefore, it was EMC who forced her out--not VMware. How EMC will deal with VMware going forward is, of course, speculation but I have my opinion.
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I find it stunning that people think this is an EMC power play when those of us inside EMC heard about it the same time as the rest of you did and through the same channels the rest of you did. There was no email or heads up as we have zero insight into VMware's board or management as *it's a separate company*. Inside EMC nothing has changed with how we interact with VMware and no such plans have been put forward.
The facts are that VMware changed it's CEO, everything is just speculation and gossip.