что произошло в 2008

Скопипащу интересный пост - The year that was - 2008 review of VMware world.
Окинув взглядом путевые точки, можно попытаться углядеть куда идем..


Jan
* Acquisition of Thinstall
* Stage Manager released
* Virtual Desktop Manager 2.0 released
* Microsoft acquires Calista
* Quest acquires Vizioncore

Feb
* VMworld Europe
* VMsafe announced

March
* Lifecycle Manager released

April
* Update 1 released

May
* Site Recovery Manager released
* Stage Manager released
* Management and Automation bundles (M&A) released
* Acquisition of B-hive
* First Communities Round Table Podcast

June
* Virtual Desktop Manager 2.1 released

July
* ThinApp 4.0 released
* Diane Greene is out and Paul Maritz is in
* VMware Infrastructure Toolkit released
* Free version of ESXi released
* Citrix XenDesktop released
* Update 2 released

August
* Lab Manager 3 released
* Update 2 time bomb failure and re-release of Update 2
* Microsoft announces support for 31 applications running under a Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) listed hypervisor.

September
* Mendel Rosenblum leaves
* ESX qualifies as first hypervisor for Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)
* VMworld
* VMware announces VDC-OS, vCloud and View
* Fusion 2.0 released
* Teradici partnership
* Cisco and VMware announce the Cisco Nexus 1000V & VN-Link
* Workstation 6.5 released
* Server 2.0 released

October
* Microsoft Hyper-V Server released

November
* VMware acquires Tungsten Graphics
* Update 3 released

December
* VMware renames most components of the product line
* View Manager 3 released
* Site Recovery Manager Update 1 released