I guess VMware itself is soon an interesting target to buy in. Consider the cloud computing business is dominated by Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and Google, othe

I guess VMware itself is soon an interesting target to buy in. Consider the cloud computing business is dominated by Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and Google, other companies with even more money on the bank need to buy in on a strategic perspective. Maybe Apple should buy VMware? Or what about HP or Dell? It's hard to tell and maybe the buyer will split VMWare again into an infrastructure and software/framework part. For us Ruby developers it's cool if they keep sponsoring the Engine Yard Opensource efforts (JRuby, Rubinius, and so much more) and the professional services. Personally I thought that Amazon might take over EY and Heroku and put them together into one business. Both are dead without EC2. As Dropbox would be without S3...