Troubled phrasings ?
There's a couple of lines I'm not getting
VMware recently posted tepid growth of just one percent year on year – albeit at a time it introduced several major product releases, so customers had very good reason not to increase spending."
Aren't major releases the drivers of increased spending, corporate holiday upgrade shopping ?
"the virtual machine's days as the dominant way to package abstractions are over and it must therefore be relevant to the world of cloud-native applications and containers."
Abstractons of what, specifically ? or does it mean there is no place on the cloud for VMs, in any capacity