VMware Douses Open Source with Waterfall of Nonsense | Linux Today

VMware Douses Open Source with Waterfall of Nonsense

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 2, 2007

“For example, our recent interview with VMware CEO Diane Greene
took place in the company’s new waterfall room. This magical room
is just like your average conference room except it has a large
glass plate at one end with water constantly rushing down its face.
This is the kind of thing you put in a conference room after you’ve
spent millions on a new headquarters and conquered Wall Street.

“The waterfall, however, is so damned loud that VMware has to
turn it off when they have conference calls. It also trampled all
over our audio collection of Greene’s thoughts…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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