{"id":9664,"date":"2009-05-28T15:26:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2009-05-28T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"vmware-tossing-the-toys-out-of-the-pram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"VMware Tossing The Toys Out Of The Pram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I flashed over this headline this morning but didn\u2019t read it.\u00a0 I just <a title=\"read\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/2009\/05\/28\/vmware-this-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a> it on Scott Lowe\u2019s blog and I\u2019m stunned, but I shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0 Basically, VMware aren\u2019t allowing any competitors into their VMWorld conference.\u00a0 Strangely, MS has always allowed VMware into TechEd.\u00a0 Any ESX\/Virtual Center user can clearly see ESX is geared mainly towards running Windows (even if it does have a larger OS support base than Hyper-V).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pro-Microsoft so you can guess my reaction.\u00a0 Heck, I liked ESX when I used it, I just prefer the manageability of Hyper-V when combined with VMM\/OpsMgr, not to mention where things might go with Native VHD post-W2008 R2.<\/p>\n<p>But when I read a <a title=\"post\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/2009\/05\/28\/vmware-this-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> like the above from a pro-VMware (or at least neutral guy) like Scott Lowe then I\u2019m sure VMware has gone too far.\u00a0 But that shouldn\u2019t really strike me as strange:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/09\/hyper-v-winning-daily-vmware-fud-reaching-new-heights.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/09\/day-two-of-the-scott-drummond-vmware-fud-fiasco.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/virtualization\/archive\/2009\/05\/17\/vmware-fud-fiasco-part-3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Come on VMware, grow up and start competing with your product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flashed over this headline this morning but didn\u2019t read it.\u00a0 I just read it on Scott Lowe\u2019s blog and I\u2019m stunned, but I shouldn\u2019t be.\u00a0 Basically, VMware aren\u2019t allowing any competitors into their VMWorld conference.\u00a0 Strangely, MS has always allowed VMware into TechEd.\u00a0 Any ESX\/Virtual Center user can clearly see ESX is geared mainly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware Tossing The Toys Out Of The Pram&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","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=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}