Re: Less than pleased customers...
I believe there is a public interest question that needs to be addressed, perhaps not in the same league as an obvious 'monopoly' but just because something can be done it does not follow logically that it should.
There may be an eventual impact on all those VMWare services and installation currently 'in-flight' that will need support and updates etc.
EU and other government bureaucracy could well rely upon VMWare having to replace it likely would put additional dents in budgets.
The same consideration (I hope?) would be given to a local government garbage collection contractor being taken over by a national recycling centre operator who had a dubious reputation; if the local contractor is a significantly large enough part of the contracted services there could be avoidable negative impact, financial or otherwise, on the local government and/or community if the service standards fell or even failed..
With the world population near 8 billion and other climate and political happenings things do not occur in isolation, there are far reaching impacts.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
