VMware’s launched a blockchain that may be very good. The packaging it's used is more important

Blockheads are about to get a new appreciation of private clouds and application packaging, after VMware launched a Blockchain product. Imaginatively named “VMware Blockchain”, the product debuts more than two years after it was teased at VMworld 2018 and quite some time after numerous rivals have brought enterprise Blockchain …

[ghp]

What's this article about?

[katrinab]

A very widely implemented 1970s technology that some people are wetting themselves over as The Next Big Thing.

[W.S.Gosset]

:O

*50s*, please!

Assuming by your date that you're talking VMs. Hell, _COBOL_ effectively ran in its own VM.

[Michael Wojcik]

I assumed katrinab was talking about Merkle Trees, which were patented in 1979.

[TeeCee]

Yet another blockchain implementation that you can buy for <insert reason here>.

Or, as your board members would understand it from the tech pages of the FT: Iz must hav block chain nowz.

Or, as we would understand it: A load of implementation work we don't need to produce something that does something we already do, only more slowly and in a more complicated manner.

[Anonymous Coward]

Implementation details

So is this going to be a git-repository being cloned from the exchange or are they going to implement proof-of-work, and if so - how is that ever going to function in practice for a fast-paced stock exchange?