VMware: "If Amazon Wins, We All Lose" – ReadWrite

This probably made some Amazon employees smile

"Now, VMware is up against a highly disruptive competitor, and by its own admission, it's not winning. VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach said as much as he tried to rally VMware's partner troops: "I look at this audience, and I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books."
And yet, it hasn't been beating Amazon. Not in cloud workloads, anyway, given Amazon may record as much as $3.8 billion in AWS revenue this year, according to Macquarie Capital. Yes, much of Amazon's volume thus far has come from test/development workloads, but that is almost certainly just a starting point. Remember when Linux was only used for edge-of-the-network, non-critical workloads? That didn't last long..."

VMware: "If Amazon Wins, We All Lose" – ReadWrite