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- MacGyver, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26thats crazy to think that 9.3 million shares would only be 2.5% of the company.
- theblindman2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20I had no idea that VMware was worth that much, for some reason I had this vision of just 4 guys sitting in a room coding all day...
Makes me wonder what Parallels is worth... - stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16This makes a lot of sense for both parties. Intel invests in a market that they will profit from (more virtualization = more precoessors sold), and VMware gets a big chunk of cash.
- Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Errrm... I'd hardly call a 2.5% stake 'buying'. Investing - sure, but they're not even close to a buyout.
- Archon810, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11[Jaw drops] So.... VMWare's expected market cap is going to be close to $9Bn?!
- BRODEL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I wish I could buy some VMWare stock. Their stuff is awesome. We run ESX 3.0.1 where I work and when I got there I hadn't even heard of ESX I had only used the VMWare workstation stuff which I thought was cool, but after learning about ESX that was on a level all on it's own.
We had some RAM go bad on a server where about 10 or so servers were being hosted on and the server went into maintenance mode and moved all of the guest servers off of itself onto other servers (spread evenly with load in mind) and we didn't even notice it until one of us saw the alert it sent us. No users called saying this or that was down.. nothing. That just kicks ass. - aaronm67, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Damn, I had no idea VMWare was such a valuable company. There is far more in the virtualization business then I would have ever thought.
- Archon810, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I know what you're talking about, man. One of the local syadmins told me this tale of faraway land where servers off-load themselves and virtually load balance and where there's no downtime. It sounded so amazing. I think that's where the future is, and I'll be the first in line for public VMWare stock.
- brandmur, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4They don't need a cash infusion, they're owned by EMC. This is just a method to try and increase stock prices.
- kevnaca, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4VMware is more respective than Parallels in the corporate world. VMware has been making virtualization clients for a long time. Parallels is great but VMware's code is much more mature.
- shoebappa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4vmotion!
- bblades, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Seems like another volume in the unhappy working relationship between Intel and Microsoft. Intel just as it did with their Apple deal, is taking a jab at Redmond by supporting the competition. Vmware really does make some great software. I just downloaded Fusion 1.0 RC1 today, and as a consumer app it is excellent, though I dont have any experience with their business level stuff. Seems like a wise decision on Intel's part.
- nuggetz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Actually, you need less processors, no?
- BRODEL, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hey don't digg him down! vmotion is what made my story possible. VMotion FTW!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6What the hell is a pro coe sore? That sounds like it hurts.
- cbdgr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2my guess is more processors or processor power in one box
- kevnaca, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2they are obviously a huge company. their windows virtual clients are the best out there. Parallels is playing catch up.
- saboola, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Why would more processors be sold due to virtualization? If anything less processors might be sold since you can run more than one OS on a single machine at the same time, eliminating the need for a second machine. Processor and all.
- Goosemaster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2VMware is a GIANt....
a big friendly one so far:P - leogodin217, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I would say less processors as in fewer boxes. However, more expensive processors that have a hight profit margin. Virtualization requires better processors. So instead of buying 100 boxes with moderate processors, someone may buy 50 boxes with processors that have 3 times the profit margin of the mid range processors.
- shoebappa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2better than a guess, fewer boxes with more processors and memory.
- driya2000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Anybody in the business knows that Intel Capital is a major venture capital firm that has invested billions into early-stage industries.
Any strategic advantages are just icing on the cake. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Blocked!
- knomevol, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1especially when intel was going backwards and had to catch back up with VT to make themselves more AMD-like. (ha!)
- finezapa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1my thoughts exactly saboola. more vmware servers -- fewer hardware components needed.
- Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Sounds good... It's enough for Intel to make a positive influence on the product by offering their expertise and closer relationships, but not enough to make one doubt the future of the product as it stands today. This may in the long term boost the performance and feature set even further beyond Microsoft Virtual PC.
- yoyoverizon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+150 cents on a good day, you have to make a profit first.
- yoyoverizon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1this is all funny math, when the accounts take the book value of the company, they make up the number of shares available, and divide value / shares. A different example is berkshire hathway, they don't split shares or anything like that and they cost 100k plus a single share. What matters is market cap and earnigns per share.
- knomevol, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1what is limited about their functionality? you can go nuts using their VM. entire enterprises right now are run entirely in vmware's VMs. i'd like to hear what functionality is missing.
scan down to brodell's comment regarding ESX. - kevnaca, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1In the dev world, virtualization and sandboxing is crucial to insure multiplatform compatibility. Not every company has the luxury of buying a lot of test computers. Try VMware, it's fun to unleash viruses and malware in a sandboxed copy of Windows.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1the need for VM is on Machine that dual boot. only the extremely rich or the extremly retarded own sperate machine for *nix, Windows and BSD. Get an almost uber computer and run Virtualisation.
- godzilla808, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, but Intel might sell more higher-end processors--meaning more expensive. Anywho, virtualization will continue to increase whether Intel likes it or not, so the smart move is to join them not try to beat them.
- yoyoverizon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0no, this is "common sense", but false. Once you give people the ability to drive more IT services with the same budget, you get a net increase in IT value not in decreased servers. The conversations usually start with, oh wow I can cut my server budget in half and when its purchased end up like: wow, i can support 300 os images with my current servers
- yoyoverizon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Amen Brother. DRS is another one of mine (although that's just based on Vmotion).
- yoyoverizon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0yes you are correct. once people realize they can 5-10x server productivity, to use a PHB term, they get very excited and buy. Only a very small percentage of the world wide cpus are vitualized......
- Awspire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Nah, once you get hooked on VM's, you find you need more. more, and more processing power, not to mention RAM, and a second, or maybe third monitor. Though VM Ware's VM's are still a bit limited in functionality to reallly go nuts makning VM's.
- yazik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Lots of players in the virtualization market. VMWare has one of more mature products out there (using VI3 and Xen personally at work). The closer virtualization gets to the core of your hardware, more interesting things begin to take place at the application level. (i.e. run apps native to several different OSes at the same time)
I wonder where AMD's at? 3Leaf Systems? Never heard of 'em... (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070612005451&newsLang=en) - justram, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1VMWare is one major player in the visualization industry, Intel buying shares seems like a low kick to AMD
- finezapa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1INTEL buying VMWARE stock is the same thing as Microsoft buying stock in Apple. The more popular VMWARE [virtualization in general] becomes, the fewer hardware components (ie. processors) are sold. This way, INTEL can STILL make money from their losses to the VM industry.
- iapx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Seems logical, not to help VMware only, but to invest in VMware to have good returns when virtualization will really hit the market.
More Virtualization = Less processors sold!!!
So Intel choose to invest in VMware to protect it's value! - binorgog, on 08/07/2008, -7/+1After M$ bought softgrid, I knew someone would make the right move and buy VMWare.
- bbaker581, on 10/11/2007, -8/+0Fifth!
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