Take a look:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/vmware_turns_25/?td=rt-3a
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IBM has remained a successful company despite not acquiring VMware.
vmware dodged a bullet by not being purchased by IBM.
Being purchased by IBM is a kiss of irrelevance and eventual death.
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VMware is slumping in quadrants it once led. There’s no strong competitive advantage either from lack of innovation and poor differentiation. vmw jumped the shark.
VMware missed out on many billions by not letting AWS use ESX as its hypervisor when they were first starting out for sure! But eventually AWS would have migrated to something opensource like it did from Xen to KVM.
Oh please. I realize this site is for emotionally airing grievances and that VMware certainly has products in its portfolio that should be EOL now, but "There is nothing that VMware does that someone else doesn't do better" is just ridiculous. The marketshare and customer satisfaction numbers on the core platform aren't where they are because customers were duped into using a lesser product.
Amazon is so screwed now with AWS… not!
Yes. Exactly what you said @ash+1l90TxFW.
No. IBM most certainly did not sc--w up.
There is nothing VMware does that someone else doesn't do better and probably does it less half a-s than VMware's current incarnation.
Amazon dodged a bullet.