Yep, I need to review it this week... I like how all these companies can spin "We just through up a dumb idea and now have to backtrack" to "we listened to our customers and partners, and decided to refine a few things..."
* * *ASB* *http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Gary Slinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that it's public, this may be of interest, given the gnashing of teeth > recently. > > G > > ------Original Message------ > From: The VMware Team > To: Gary Slinger > ReplyTo: The VMware Team > Subject: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update > Sent: Aug 3, 2011 17:40 > > View this email on mobile devices | View the online version > VMware vSphere 5 Licensing & Pricing Update Dear VMware Partner, > On July 12, 2011, VMware announced our new Cloud Infrastructure Suite. The > launch featured vSphere 5, the newest version of our flagship product. > As many of you know, as part of this announcement, we introduced changes to > the vSphere licensing model in order to align costs with the benefits of > virtualization rather than with the physical attributes of individual > servers. While our goal was to provide a licensing model based on > consumption and value rather than physical components and capacity, we > strived to make the new model as non-disruptive as possible. > These changes generated much debate in the blogosphere, in conversations > with our partners and customers, and across VMware communities. Some of the > discussion had to do with confusion around the changes. We have been > watching the blog commentaries carefully, and we have been listening to the > partner and customer conversations very intently. A great deal of feedback > was provided that examined the impact of the new licensing model on every > possible use case and scenario, and equally importantly, reflected our > partners’ and customers’ intense passion for VMware. > Our success depends on the active involvement of our channel partners. We > are a company built on partner and customer goodwill, and we’ve taken your > feedback in earnest. Our primary objective is to do right by our customers, > so we are announcing three changes to the vSphere 5 licensing model that > address the most recurring areas of your feedback. > • We’ve increased vRAM entitlements for all vSphere editions, including > the doubling of the entitlements for vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. > This change addresses concerns about future-looking business cases that were > based on future hardware capabilities and the previous vSphere licensing > model. Below is a comparison of the previously announced and the new > vSphere 5 vRAM enti > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
