Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace'

Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom's spinoff of VMWare's end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of "AI-infused autonomous workspaces". Omnissa came into being after private equity outfit KKR decided around $4 billion was a reasonable price to acquire VMware's portfolio of desktop …

[Pascal Monett]

"self-healing, self-configuring and self-securing"

Self-configuring is already a red flag. The software doesn't know where it is, so some amount of manual configuration is necessary.

Self-healing means nothing for software. Software doesn't stub its toes. Either it has resiliency programmed in it, or it will fall over like Windows 95 after 24 hours.

As for self-securing, I look forward to reading reports of PCs running Omnissa where Omnissa has decided to refuse network connections . . .

[Irongut]

Re: "self-healing, self-configuring and self-securing"

You forgot the real kicker - continuously adapting.

Users just love it when you upgrade their OS or apps and they have a new look or different features, I'm sure they'll adore software that is constantly changing itself.

[J. Cook]

I'm still trying to parse the company name correctly; I keep wanting to call it Omnissiah (TM) for some reason.

Mines the one with the Cog Mechanicum (TM) logo on the back.