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I wondered the same thing.  I found this news announcement that was released 
on Sept. 15th, 2008:

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vcloud_vmworld08.html

Though, I'm thinking getting in to a legal battle over rights to the name 
would not be fun.

Josh

On Monday May 04, 2009, Henry E Schaffer wrote:
> Aaron writes:
> > actually no we can NOT use Vcloud.
> >
> > VMWare is using that name
> > <http://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/vcloud.html>
>
>   Did they start using it before 2 Feb 2008 when we started using it?
> (check the registration of the vcloud.org domain and then check out
> http://www.vcloud.org/)  Does this make any difference?
>
> --henry schaffer
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