VMware's divorce from Dell is complete: Virtualization giant now a separate biz with $64bn valuation

VMware completed its divorce from Dell on Monday – and immediately signaled its intent to go out find more partners and acquire companies. That means Dell Technologies has formally spun off VMware into a separate, independent software business, completing an April transaction to offload its 80.5 per cent ownership in the …

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe Dell can resurrect vWorkspace now it won't be competing internally with VMWare Horizon. It was a great product if you needed a lightweight alternative to Citrix CVAD/Horizon.

[Anonymous Coward]

VMWare support for the last few years has gone downhill rapidly.

We're looking at Open Source options (XCP-NG) instead.

[Darkk]

Or take a look at ProxMox.

[yoganmahew]

Bizarro world...

"Today’s move will strengthen our mission to be the Switzerland of the cloud industry."

Most expensive cloud ever?

Secretive haven for dictators ill-gotten gains?

You don't have to be cuckoo-clock to use us, but the chocolate helps?

[SusiW]

Re: Bizarro world...

Thanks for the smiles!

I truly needed that. XX

[chivo243]

Re: Bizarro world...

Chocolate watches?

[pavel.petrman]

Re: Bizarro world...

I think he meant the gunposts masqueraded as field barns and that you need to master four languages to get from one corner of the place the other.

[NeilPost]

Re: Bizarro world...

Like Crypto AG ? Where the Swiss Govt, NSA and German Intelligence were in collision with back door access ?!

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/12/crypto_ag_swiss_parliament_report/

[Tromos]

Wants to be the 'Switzerland' of cloud

Ah yes, the favourite destination of anyone wanting to go downhill.

[knarf]

Spacing Guild of the Cloud

Just supping off enough to survive and then some.

[IT Guy]

EMC Spin out next?

Hey, maybe Dell can spin out EMC too. LOL

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure about the future of VMWare…

In my experience it’s a good product but seems to have failed to capitalise on its own first mover advantage. At the moment, I see customers who want to migrate to this vendor’s OpenStack or their own KVM based data centres. Then there’s potential new customers who want AWS*. No one seems to explicitly ask us for VMWare though (to be fair) we do still sell it on a small scale (as we always have). I wonder if VMWare is the next Oracle? That would be sad. Not being the future is rarely not bad.

* Thankfully small(ish) scale and not to complex to start with. Baby steps and all that.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Not sure about the future of VMWare…

> or their own KVM based data centres.

Just so long as they don't want to try and run their KVM under vcloud coz it seems to be about as stable as a pencil standing on it's point in an earthquake zone.