{"id":407,"date":"2011-05-24T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-05-24T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:37:19","slug":"gigaom-vmware-is-the-new-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/gigaom-vmware-is-the-new-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigaom: &#8220;VMware is the new Microsoft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just escaped the Dubiously-Evil Empire, and now Gigaom tells me that I really didn&#8217;t in their article <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/cloud\/vmware-is-the-new-microsoft-just-without-an-os\/\">&#8220;VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Gigaom looks at VMware&#8217;s history, acquisitions, and recent launches to conclude:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With VMware holding the keys to the hypervisor layer and management, then the platform layer, and even the cloud applications layer with email from Zimbra, and presentations from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/collaboration\/vmware-buys-sliderocket-in-a-race-to-provide-collaboration-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slide Rocket<\/a>, why do I need Windows?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this means that my <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VMW\">VMW stock<\/a> will continue to go up, unlike all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT stock<\/a> that I still have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just escaped the Dubiously-Evil Empire, and now Gigaom tells me that I really didn&#8217;t in their article &#8220;VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS&#8221;. \u00a0Gigaom looks at VMware&#8217;s history, acquisitions, and recent launches to conclude: With VMware holding the keys to the hypervisor layer and management, then the platform layer, and even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/24\/gigaom-vmware-is-the-new-microsoft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gigaom: &#8220;VMware is the new Microsoft&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}