Thread regarding VMware Inc. layoffs

is no matter how plainly obvious it is to the market, they continue to stick to their original product line, unwilling and unable to actually throw their lot with new vision, new idea, new people and new leadership all paradigm changes herald. Microsoft kept tagging everything windows this windows that; yahoo insisted on being a portal (or the magical word "content", if "content" were so magical, Time Warner would have beaten out Google and Apple by now: people like content but it's a fickle business, one year you're king next year you'd be trash.), etc. this manifests in manners large and small both in term of vision spelled out by CxOs as well as how much time each group is given in term of delays and failures, critically, it also tells how much power each product line wields internally, if the core hypervisor were unlikely to grow much, why insists giving SOOOO much resources and SOOOO much power to that particular group. Make no mistake, they're great at what they're doing but time has changed, market has changed. In the age of AWS and Google, it's comical to see such a highly successful but nonetheless highly marginal in term of importance to the future of the company as a whole (what it can contribute has already been contributed.) continue to receive the lion share of resource, power and protection, to the point of interfering with others who might be new but also might actually make a difference to the future of the company (you make hypervisor run 5% more efficiently, great engineering feat, but big deal in term of the big picture.)