A very interesting post.  To me this illustrates a couple of points very well.<p>1) VMWare likely have no idea what they lost when they cut this team.  Once teams just look like just a number of people to be re-located to save costs, there tends not to be consideration of the value of a long-lived team with the experience and team spirit that this post talks about.<p>2) If you&#x27;re an employee of a large corp, never ever stay out at a role out of &quot;company loyalty&quot;, it&#x27;s a mugs game.  Not to say that that&#x27;s true for all companies, but large ones seem to have a distressing tendency to treat people as numbers to be valued and shifted and cut, and loyalty shown by the person to the company means very little in these circumstances.