Mendel Rosenblum
According to the New-York Times, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware co-founder and Chief Scientist, has officially resigned from Vmware. The decision is not a surprise and follows the ousting of Rosenblum’s wife, Diane Greene (see this post in french), from her role as CEO in july. Mendel Rosenblum will return to Stanford as a full-time professor.
Trouble in paradise
In the wake of Greene’s ousting, VMware has lost a string of key executive, among them its executive VP of R&D, Richard Sarwal, who went back to Oracle last week and Paul Chan, its Vice President of Product Development. What is still unknown is if these departures will have an impact on VMware’s ability to maintain its technology lead on its competitors, a lead that made the company the undisputed leader of the virtualization market.
What is sure, however, is that these departures come at the worst moment for the company : Microsoft just launched Hyper-V Server, its free competitor to VMware ESXi, Sun is about to lauch xVM Server while Citrix is putting the last touch to the next release of XenServer. Oracle has also entered the market with Oracle VM and Red Hat is preparing its entry in the market with oVirt. You might as well say that Paul Maritz will have his hands full in the next months…
Références externes
- reference #1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/technology/09vmware.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
