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VmWare is part of Pivotal/EMC. They sell cloud foundry that is an on premise cloud directly competing against OpenShift from RedHat. From what I've seen, they'

• zapita 8y ago
  Yes Vmware does a lot more sales than Red Hat. However Pivotal CloudFoundry is not their best-seller... I doubt it’s even in the top 5. Vmware’s empire is built on Vsphere/esx (their core business) and, more recently Vsan (storage) and NSX (networking). The former is the largest. The latter two are the fastest growing. Container platforms are a relatively new category, so sales are not huge. In that category Cloudfoundry might be slightly ahead, but I think Openshift has more momentum because their early bet on Docker then Kubernetes is paying off. Pivotal has PKS but it feels half-hearted.
  • jacques_chester 8y ago
    Our work on PKS is whole-hearted.
  • user5994461 8y ago
    Pivotal is a separate entity and business model from VMWare, I wouldn't compare them directly. They are both owned by EMC/DELL. I'm under the impression that cloud foundry is specifically targeting mega corporation like fortune 100 banks. In that context, it only takes a few sales to capture the market and a lot of money. I didn't see OpenShift used anywhere.
• jacques_chester 8y ago
  VMWare and Pivotal are separate companies. DellEMC owns controlling stakes in each. Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.