{"id":13636,"date":"2012-10-23T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13636"},"modified":"2012-10-23T07:34:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T06:34:49","slug":"vmlimited-special-forces-go-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13636","title":{"rendered":"VMLimited Special Forces Go To War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very good laugh yesterday.\u00a0 I was sitting in a conference room, waiting for the first session to start when this happened:<\/p>\n<p>The guy (who is pretty well connected in business) that is sitting in front of me turned around and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m guessing by the Irish accent that you\u2019re Aidan Finn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I respond that I am \u2026 waiting cautiously for what comes next \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want to shake the hand of the guy that <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13483\" target=\"_blank\">caused VMware<\/a> to create a team to <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13504\" target=\"_blank\">attack him<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh did I laugh!\u00a0 To think that Tad and his dark army of the past had to form a special forces team to misquote my blog, take facts out of context, put it all in their \u201cindependent\u201d blog, and spam Twitter with their propaganda and trolling \u201cyou suck\u201d tweets.\u00a0 By the way, <em>boys<\/em>, this only shows how weak you feel right now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishclassiccomedy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/showpromo1-460x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Tad who works in VMware\u2019s marketing and compete unit, I don\u2019t work for Microsoft.\u00a0 I\u2019ll call Microsoft on the bad stuff they do, and trust me, I get <em>lots<\/em> of interesting emails and phone calls as a result of that.\u00a0 I <em>am<\/em> independent.\u00a0 You might disagree with my comments or assessments, but at least they are not those that my employer told me to post <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" alt=\"Smile\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:280b49db-6a17-485f-a946-392462a1c06d\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMware\">VMware<\/a>,<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a very good laugh yesterday.\u00a0 I was sitting in a conference room, waiting for the first session to start when this happened: The guy (who is pretty well connected in business) that is sitting in front of me turned around and said: I\u2019m guessing by the Irish accent that you\u2019re Aidan Finn. 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