VMware's Stumbling Cloud Adventure
It wasn&#x27;t myopia.  VMWare suffered from the same thing that other companies have gone through.  They tried&#x2F;are trying not to cannibalize their main source of revenue, and the world has moved on without them.  CloudFoundry was their way of attempting to control the conversation, but it failed.<p>They couldn&#x27;t go from a lucrative private cloud revenue stream and then somehow convert it to a public cloud and expect to make the same amount of money.  During that time that was mentioned, from 2006 until probably 2010&#x2F;2011, AWS was great for small companies, but there were still issues with security, availability, reliability, etc, so VMware could get away with selling the private cloud.<p>I mentioned this is another post that got a lot of vehement comments, but virtualization itself is dying.  Not dead, but dying.  Many large companies with their own datacenters are running off of bare metal, and this will be the trend going forward.  Yes, virtualization is still in many private datacenters, but bare metal is how newer companies are going, and in 10 years, I bet virtualization will be gone from all but the slowest of private datacenters.  It&#x27;s a level of overheard now that has been completely circumvented as unnecessary for the most part, and it will fall into disfavor as more and more people learn techniques on how to avoid it altogether.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean that VMware will be gone in 10 years.  Even WinZip to this day has something like $50-75M&#x2F;year in annual revenue.  But it will be relegated as a legacy app.