I'm sure, according to their models (which may not have existed outside the head of some MBA sorts), this was the most profitable move, because, of course nobod

I'm sure, according to their models (which may not have existed outside the head of some MBA sorts), this was the most profitable move, because, of course nobody would be able to move off VMWare! It's a vital infrastructure product, or something... Doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm not a corporate raider, either. I'd just be happy to help people port their internal tooling over to Xen or KVM...