vmware has a market cap > $12 billion and revenues ~$1.9B >From what I've seen, they OWN the VM market. Commodity like MS Office is a commodity.
On Aug 10, 5:13 pm, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Commodotized in that theres a plethora of free solutions, ranging from Xen > to VirtualBox. Now, a lot of these free setups kinda suck and don't offer > any cloud scaling themselves so theres still an area to provide a kick arse > value add service/platform. > > To be honest I've not really looked closely at the cloud/virtualization > stuff, but with the ease in which I can just purchase on a whim an amazon > cloud instance, or something from one of the other providers, and move > fairly freely between them - gives me the mind that its now a commodity of a > sort. > > -- > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Josh Suereth > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > WHAT???????????!!!!?????? > > > Virtualization is commodotized? I think VMWare is doing just fine, however > > it's interesting as Microsoft is entering the space. Lots of $$ in > > virtualization, and the coming of "the cloud". Perhaps they see > > SpringSource as playing intot he cloud? > > > I find the buyout strange, but I don't see them as dying companies... > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Two dying companies joining forces to make one uber corpse? :-) > >> In part it feels like VMWare trying to find a new market now that > >> virtualisation is commodotized, and also Springsource the same now that > >> DI/IoC is. > > >> -- > > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Josh Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts? > > >>>http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/10/springsource-chapter-two/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
