
Half of VMWare’s Customer Base Should’ve Bought SaaS
According to Network World (which got its data from a VMWare customer survey), half of VMWare’s customer base is using the product to virtualize Microsoft Exchange. Why in the world didn’t these customers buy a SaaS mail product? For all the hassle of managing Exchange servers in your own data center, it’s just not worth […]

VMware Zimbra: Integration without Context Shift
Stephen did his usual excellent job of explaining the the VMware Zimbra acquisition with a Q&A. Seriously – read the analysis. I already fed some of my thoughts into his post, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to mention. Zimbra’s awesomesauce Zimbra remains probably the single best implementation I have seen […]

The battle for your email in 2009
In my next few posts over the coming holiday period, I’m going to highlight some of the big themes that have been running through this blog over the past year, as well as flag up some important emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010. There are several stories I didn’t get the […]