It’s finally here – VMworld 2008. I made it into Vegas last night. Let me pause and say the airlines need to get MUCH better on how they treat people with disabilities. I have a broken foot so my disability is only temporary but air travel while you’re disabled (especially when you need to stretch out your leg) is NOT fun. OK. Enough complaining about getting here.
Today is Partner Day/TAM Day/Lab Day at VMworld. You can tell the event has kicked off since the AT&T network is now down. No sending or receiving email. No browsing the web. Nothing. Why does the AT&T network crumble under these conference loads? It wouldn’t be too bad if you could actually get on the wireless network here. That’s the other thing. I’ve never been to a technology conference of any decent size where the wireless has worked. I really think conferences should stop paying these providers for their services.
So far the event is great. Steve Houck got up first to talk about our commitment to Partners and recap the VMware Affiliate program where partners get paid by our partners to sell their products in conjunction with VMware. Paul Maritz spoke this morning to the partners about our future direction. It was great to hear the feedback from partners. It seems we’re heading in the right direction. Carl Eschenbach spoke as the clean up hitter and got everyone energized about the opportunity that’s in front of us. Even though it was a dawn patrol (it started at 8 am) there was a LOT of energy in the room.
I’ll try to fill everyone in on things happening during the conference but it’s a very busy schedule for me. The big news should hit tomorrow during the official Keynote from Paul to the world.
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