VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?
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SHOW NOTES:
HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWN
- VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?
- What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?
HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS
- What happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?
- What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft?
- What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?
- What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)
- Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)?
- What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019?
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