Since many seem to think Tanzu will be spun off, what are people’s opinions on who could be a potential buyer?
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To the person speaking on the AEs - I'm so sorry they treat you like that. You're not alone. I've brought this up to management and nothing has changed. Their sh*t karama will come back to bite them one day.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 LMAO, thanks for making my Monday.
The Salvation Army is perhaps a good buyer
If I was acquiring VMware and looked at the hot mess that was Tanzu, I’d also look for “a buyer that understands its value”.
That last quote is from Hock describing one possible outcome.
You would be hard pressed to find anyone that understands its value since internally no one seems to understand it and we have been trying to understand it for years. Maybe we have people who can sell Brooklyn Bridges for a living, if so, those Jedi are our only hope.
The other outcome being that group needs to be an independent franchise and by that I assume means being profitable. Good luck with that.
Working with Tanzu AE's gives me heart palpations. They're very ignorant, rude, and disagreeable people. I could present credible scientific evidence to them and still have them say, "you're wrong, I'm right." Or even worst, they use their manipulative sales tactics to gain my trust, and they stab me right in the back right after. I'm applying for jobs this weekend, because I'm sick of working in this toxic business unit.
Tanzu's Account Executives are insufferable. They sit on piles of money and complain, while everything and everyone else goes up in flames. Their technical knowledge is garbage as well. Throw the whole organization away, and start over. Get rid of these toxic and incompetent people. Pivotal brought their trash over and it needs to be taken out.
This culture of inexecution is pervasive throughout the company. We cannot fix this.
Well said
Then they should ki-l Tanzu and have the vSphere BU make kvSphere, that includes a single k8s offering and forget this whole Tanzu story of being a portable k8s layer across hyperscalers and the 73,343 different products they slapped the Tanzu name on.
The core vSphere BU should be doing this work as the BU Tanzu is in is filled with incompetent and dangerous product managers who end up making hard to fathom technical decisions, which VPs let them make. And then these id--ts get congratulated instead of fired for proven incompetence.
Basically the inmates are running the asylum in that corner of VMware.
Will be glad to see that stupidity end.
If there was no more Tanzu...
Containers are the future. The number of VMs will decline and there will be more containers vs VMs.
Then on-premise consumers have a choice, run the majority of there estate on VMware and Docker (or open source alt), move to RedHat openshift or use the Hyperscalers on-prem offerings that are increasing year on year....
If VMware, do not offer a container offering. They are shooting themselves in the foot and will loose on-premise business to RedHat and AWS/Azure in the coming years.
There has to be a container offering onprem by VMware! It makes perfect sense.
Should Tanzu be sold. No.
Should it be made easier to install, manage and consume. Yes.
Pivotal had some IP but a junk product no one wanted.
Heptio had no IP, no product and no business model.
Why anyone would want to buy that is beyond me.
Nobody. It was a d-mb buy to buy pivotal which we got forced into.
The problem is that it is not easy to consume Tanzu. We always find a good reason why we can't make it easy. No one wants to buy or pay for reasons. This culture of inexecution is pervasive throughout the company. We cannot fix this. It needs a hard reset which is what Hoc will bring.
I'm working very hard on this...But I'm almost giving up...
Who's going to buy that?
No even that desperate people of HCL.
Even in the sale, they will only buy the technology and IP. This will not be good for employees.
If you look at all the products with the 'Tanzu' prefix, they don't really form a cohesive set of offerings. Basically vmware took all the pivotal products and heptio products and smashed them together to be 'tanzu'. If managers have the patience, different parts of tanzu will get sold off to different companies imho.
Michael Dell ? 😀