We Fear Change

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Check out this lost focus-group footage from the 2011 vSphere 5.0 launch — when vRAM was introduced:

With the announcement of vSphere 5.1 this week at VMworld 2012, the buzz is still resonating: vRAM is dead! Long live per-socket licensing!

In other news, sources close to VMlimited report that Tad is off diligently working on his updated sales and marketing collateral…

Where's VMlimited

…can’t wait to see it.

Tags: licensing, vSphere

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thomas williams on August 28, 2012 at 9:52 pm

So you gouged your customers as long as you could. Removed due to customer feedback? Probably not, change the license model to try and match your competitor? Probably right.

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NiTRo on August 28, 2012 at 10:55 pm

The video on youtube is gone too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewedqvSWaI

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Massimo Re Ferre' (VMware) on August 29, 2012 at 5:16 am

> Change the license model to try and match your competitor? Probably right.

Says that vendor that had to tweak/torture its OS to inject a hypervisor for the same reason.

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