> Wasn't she asleep at the wheel at VMWare when AWS/MS were building out their cloud offerings? She left VMware in 2008, that's only two years after AWS launch

> Wasn't she asleep at the wheel at VMWare when AWS/MS were building out their cloud offerings? She left VMware in 2008, that's only two years after AWS launched and two years before Microsoft Azure. Maybe with the benefit of hindsight "cloud" seems like an obvious next step but I imagine it wasn't as clear in 2008ish - even Amazon didn't move its retail operation to AWS until two years later[1]. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/2011-aws-tour-australia-closing-keynote-how-amazoncom-migrated-to-aws-by-jon-jenkins http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/2011-aws-tour-au...