{"id":10675,"date":"2010-06-18T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2010-06-18T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T13:46:54","slug":"are-vmware-getting-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10675","title":{"rendered":"Are VMware Getting Desperate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this spam email from a VMware sales rep.&#160; It was sent to a mail list &lt;undisclosed recipients&gt;:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI tried to call you this morning in relation to your interest in our virtualization technology. I just wanted to know if you have any virtualization projects at present, or planned for the future. In Vmware we can help in terms of technical assistance, commercial advice, hardware setup etc. if required.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Please drop me a line when you have a moment and don\u2019t hesitate to ask any questions that may be helpful to your objectives\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, VMware is cold calling people and then emailing them to drum up business.&#160; Hmmm \u2026.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a043995c-1add-4790-8a21-29da7b0f1fc0\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\" rel=\"tag\">VMware<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received this spam email from a VMware sales rep.&#160; It was sent to a mail list &lt;undisclosed recipients&gt;: \u201cI tried to call you this morning in relation to your interest in our virtualization technology. I just wanted to know if you have any virtualization projects at present, or planned for the future. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are VMware Getting Desperate?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[195,103],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualisation","tag-virtualisation","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}