*Sigh* Another Win for Corporate America
By Miguel Diaz 16 Dec 2003
Well, it seems EMC has decided to go and purchase VMWare. The move makes sense for EMC since they need to start playing in the virtualization realm in order to remain viable in the future and acquisitions are definitely more cost effective than in house development; especially when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. But this one hurts because VMWare is such a wonderful product and EMC has a history of fucking things up.
<p>Of course then there are the conspiracy theorists who have noted that the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/apr03/04-28EMCpr.asp">partnership</a><br />between <span class=”caps”>EMC</span> and <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com”>Micro$oft</a> has been growing recently and, being as <span class=”caps”>VMW</span>are is far and away the most comprehensive (and probably the only viable) virtualization solution for <a href=”http://www.linux.org”>Linux</a> on the desktop (either as host or guest OS), this could be a discreet attempt by Microsoft to undermine Linux’s viability. Not that I really agree with them, but conspiracy theories are always fun.</p>
<p><span class="caps">FWIW</span>, <span class="caps">VMW</span>are was scheduled to <span class="caps">IPO</span> in 2004 and I really think accepting this offer was something of a cowardly move on their executives’ part because they would have done very well in the market with virtualization being such a hot topic these days. But you all know that saying about the “hand in the bush” or something; I guess it’s hard for anyone to say no to $650M.</p> Tags: vmware microsoft emc linux virtualization