New VMware Licensing Confuses Users and the Ecosystem Alike

VMware announced new virtual memory-based licensing at the July 2011 announcement. The Twitter stream was full of disgruntled practitioners, consultants and pundits. Several concerns remain and the bottom line is VMware did a poor job of connecting the dots for its customers and ecosystem partners on this issue. The Wikibon community plans further announcement of this issue with follow-on analysis.