VMW Explore is turning out to be a joke. Seems very sloppily put together (I imagine the inept company leadership and the AVGO acquisition have something to do with this), information has been slow in coming, seems very disorganized, and there does not seem to be any Go To people who really know what is going on. Add to that the company is still stupidly hosting it in San Francisco, with its ludicrous hotel rates and homeless harassment on the streets around Moscone. None of the announcements can really be trusted since AVGO could turn things at any time. No surprise that so many customers are taking a hard pass this year.
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I’m sure marketing is in the process of cutting back big time on the event.
Someone has probably heard something already, I’d be interested to hear what is going on.
@1jet+1hNBzknr Did you just refer to marketing as a useful part of the organization? Wow, that gave me a good laugh!
Dang. 😥 This whole thread made me sad. I agree, we all play apart of the organization.
"but calling them simpletons? Not a great choice of words."
Perhaps if those of you coming on here making insulting comments to start with should have thought about that if they didn't want some of the same behavior thrown back in their faces. None of that precious engineering means a damned thing without the people who build the user interfaces for it to be usable, the marketing department to explain the finished product, the sales staff to make the deals, and so on. So get off your high horse. You're not as important as you think. It takes a village to make a company succeed and by making insulting comments about the work of others like seen here is immature and counterintuitive.
You can be annoyed and frustrated by what they say, but calling them simpletons? Not a great choice of words. Ask a stranger on the street if they think engineers are simpletons, and they'll most likely say no. Engineers are the backbone of technology and development. They're simply sharing their opinion. Enlighten them instead of insulting them if you believe their statements to be wrong.
"Engineers aren't simpletons considering their IQs tend to be 126 and up. "
That apparently does not apply to the engineers responding here who probably suffer from much lower IQs.
Engineers aren't simpletons considering their IQs tend to be 126 and up.
It is such a simpleton, immature stance to blame the name of an event on anything since there are a great many contributing factors happening all at once. And for the people downvoting? Again. Grow up and act like adults.
I will remind you that those "outdated cookie-cutter engineers" were the primary customer draw that what was once a top-tier 20K+ person event for the tech industry, until it got torpedoed by the yawn-inducing exec leadership team.
Don't you just love reading all of these nasty comments from a bunch of outdated cookie-cutter engineers ? Maybe they should tell us what their roles are so we can poke fun of them and tell them how useless they are.
Should have been named VMDeplore
Changing VMworld to VMExplore was the worst decision. Ki---d a great brand. Anyway, Hock Tan will change it to BroadWorld, or ki-l the show altogether.
The CMO needs to be fired for ki----g the VMworld brand. This has single handed my shifted the usual energy from this event.
Will be last year for that show. Tan-man no like biggie events….
Guess what else is super lame? VMware employees trash talking the work that other VMware employees are working on. Grow up and get a life already.
Agreed, the Spring One Tours have been pretty lame too. Very little attendance and thrown together last minute.
There was a new Chief Marketing Officer. She has to be her take on it... no more VMworld. Hello Vmware Explore.
It does seem there stretching to far and ignoring the key audience.
Yeah, its a weak move changing the name. This was obviously dropped into corp marketing by the Good Idea Fairy. That and the attendance (which will be expected suffer) is way down.
Why is it in San Fran? Because all the leadership are down the road. Thats it. Nothing more. Though San Fran is like an open homeless camp, with dispersed open air dr-g markets and tons of daylight petty crime. But who cares! Its close to the execs!
Why change the name from VMWorld? That was a much better name. VMWorld seems big. VMExplore is cheesy. And I am hearing that customers don't want to attend it this year. So attendance will plummet. All part of the negative narrative on this once great company.