{"id":4276,"date":"2007-08-14T14:14:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/08\/14\/this-is-what-i-like-to-see-vmwares-ipo\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T21:14:07","slug":"this-is-what-i-like-to-see-vmwares-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/this-is-what-i-like-to-see-vmwares-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what I like to see: VMware&#8217;s IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tCheck this out, technodabbler. <a href=\"http:\/\/vmware.com\/\">VMware<\/a> is worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/14\/vmware_ipo\/\">a cool $20 Billion.<\/a> That&#8217;s not social networking or open source, it&#8217;s real business, a company that sells software against two free alternatives and wins. I should have been nicer to that recruiter when she called me a few months ago, but who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out, technodabbler. VMware is worth a cool $20 Billion. That&#8217;s not social networking or open source, it&#8217;s real business, a company that sells software against two free alternatives and wins. I should have been nicer to that recruiter when she called me a few months ago, but who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-16Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}