breathalize

Having spent an intense couple of days in Copenhagen, I am retreating to the Bloggers lounge to wind down and reflect on my time here.

For me, the best part of the experience is the accessibility of the community which VMware seems to promote and maintain at such a high level. While I know most of the UK based bloggers and experts, meeting some of the EMEA and US guys has been great and even though most of them are in a different league technically, you can still just turn up and talk to them.

I don’t know any other technology company that has this level of interaction, and it can’t hurt VMware when people can see this publicly on mediums like Twitter and the community forums.

Speaking of Twitter, I commented yesterday after seeing David M Davis and Kendrick Coleman’s session about the free tools for VMware, that in its own way Twitter has become a free support tool of its own. You only have to search #VMware as a hashtag to see people stating problems, mentioning blog posts and answering each others questions – all you need is Twitter and who to follow. Eric Siebert’s list gives any newcomer a great head start here.

 

I think the main disappointment I had was the lack of a working View client running on the iPad – especially as it was demo’d in SF you would hope the same systems would be available at both events.

All in all, a great few days where you have the opportunity to learn as much as you can from the leaders in their field. I now return to redouble my efforts to design a View architecture for the next quarter.