Paul Maritz Out As VMware CEO

The GigaOM analysis[1] is fairly good.<p><i>“They’re trying to optimize for revenue instead of market share and — good, God — Maritz if anyone should know that they need to occupy the high-share, high-volume, low-price position, which is what Microsoft did to destroy the legacy Unix OS business. VMware is behaving more like a legacy player than anything.”</i><p>[1] <a href="http://gigaom.com/cloud/vmware-seeking-scale-took-its-eye-off-the-ball/" rel="nofollow">http://gigaom.com/cloud/vmware-seeking-scale-took-its-eye-of...</a>

Yes he may be out as CEO of VMWare ...but the more interesting part of the news is :<p>Is he the new Head honcho for EMC (a sure promotion)?<p>Is he the new leader of the (soon to be spun-off) new cloud business?<p>Is he "out" as in "not related to anything VMWare or EMC any more"?<p>I think this is just the first act - more to follow soon.

Didn't Rod Johnson, CEO of Vmware's SpringSource division, announce his retirement 12 days ago, without giving a reason? Did he know about this and got out before the axes fell? <a href="http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2012/07/rod-johnson-leaves-vmware.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://adtmag.com/blogs/watersworks/2012/07/rod-johnson-leav...</a><p>Sounds like there's some restructuring going on there. The retrenchments are coming...

Interesting to see two major CEO changes today. However, has anyone used Cloud Foundry? And why everyone wants to get into "cloud provider" business?<p>Amazon is winning that market on price and features. And big players like Google, Microsoft etc. are good enough for competition.<p>Not to mention other established companies like Rackspace, Heroku who have loyal user base.

Wow, I'm at a loss for words. We all love him here, can't wait to find out what really happened.

Screwed by EMC? The way EMC runs companies I'm surprised VMWare is still around! And now that Gelsinger is at the helm... Well, would suck to work there ATM!