Given the level of applause that greeted the announcement of VMware’s new pricing model, I know this will open me up to criticism, but was the old VMware licensing model really all that bad? It certainly wasn’t perfect, and there’s an awful alot to like about the new model, but was the old license pricing model so bad that it could only be fixed by ripping it up and replacing it with something so very different?
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VMworld 2012: VMware joins OpenStack
Some interesting news about VMWare was made public on Sunday 26th August – the day before VMWorld – that VMware joins OpenStack. This appears to be driven largely by the acquisition of Nicira – and the role that Nicira currently plays in the implementation of virtual networking in OpenStack.
VMware should merge CloudFoundry with OpenStack
We suggest that to ensure CloudFoundry’s dominance, VMware should merge the dominant Open Source IaaS and PaaS initiatives into a single Foundation.
News: VMware buys the network in $1.26B Nicira acquisition
VMware announced its biggest ever bet yesterday buying up virtual networking startup Nicira for $1.26B.
VMware’s Executive Shuffle! Maritz Out and Gelsinger In
VMworld 2012 is right around the corner and the time leading up to the conference is usually the time major announcements are made about new technology and/or new products to strike interest in different technologies that will be presented at the conference. Today a different kind of announcement has been made, in that Paul Maritz is no longer VMware CEO, and he is being replaced by Pat Gelsinger, President and COO of EMC’s Information Infrastructure Product division. Mr. Maritz will become a Vice Chairman at EMC, although I am still up in the air on whether that means Paul is on his way out of EMC or looking to lead somewhere else? Maybe one could speculate Cloud Foundry? What do you make of VMware’s Executive Shuffle?
News: Windows 2012 Licensing – Mircrosoft learns from VMware's mistakes?
Perhaps with the release of 2012, Microsoft have a rare moment of being a vendor that made a change to product licensing without upsetting someone. There are now only four Windows 2012 Licensing versions, and licensing is processor and client access license based. Sometimes, it doesn’t have to be hard.