The VMware executive team answering Questions from the audience.
1. What is VMware doing to stay ahead from the competitions?
A: the battle is not on the hypervisor but the complete system to get everything to work together. VMware is still 3y ahead. MS is only now catching up with windows 2008 R2
2. How much will vSphere cost?
A: laughter, will be announced closer to GA date. Pricing and product will be more localized
3. What about citrix's announcement
A: PM; giving away something for free is an indication of lack of sstreength. VMware invests a lot in R&D
4: what about amazon c3
A: PM most offerings are for smaller web presence. Does not scale well due to lack of features
5. Oracle support and licensing, what is VMware it about it.
A: VMware us helping vendors to certify. Vendors are now certifying VA's. Oracle is still reluctant to provide support. In general licensing per socket, common in the industry will need to change, but it will take time.
6. Does the intel partnership have implications for AMD relationship?
A: no, it's not exclusive
7. Innovation will that continue to receive focus?
A: yes, but also increased focus on improvement execution.
8. How about the ease of moving from Xen to to VMware
A: will be looked into
9. What about announcements of release dates for budgetting purposes?
A: PM apologizes and promises improvement in the future.
10. What is the future of the service console?
A: there is now VIMA for that.
11. Will there be a move to have java and .net run natively?
A: that is indeed a direction being looked at.
12. What about competition between partners and VMware
A: MC this should not happen talk to him about it to resolve this.
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