Some quotes that were previously unheard of from VMware. Indicates the changing world.
"We want to own corporate workload," the report quotes Gelsinger as
saying. "We all lose if they end up in these commodity public clouds. We
want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public
cloud and uniquely enable our customers with the benefits of both. Own
the corporate workload now and forever."
...
VMware President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Eschenbach
reportedly told the audience, "I look at this audience, and I look at
VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it
really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that
sells books."
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/28/vmware-to-partners-if-amazon-cloud.html