If Pat's recent performance at VMware is any indicator...I wouldn't put that much faith in his ability to turn things around. He was very good for VMware early on in his tenure, but as competition from IaaS and other players making inroads in on-prem virtualization platforms intensified, his leadership seemed to falter. VMware began to churn and burn through acquisitions without much success, became entangled in a toxic relationship with Dell, and only managed to make marginal gains in terms of home-grown product innovation. The last couple years of his tenure were an especially noticeable period of decline, with massive losses in employee morale and retention, as well as continually degrading release quality. As a former employee (I left just before Pat did), I left the company with the impression that Pat and the rest of the execs were asleep at the wheel while the heads of various business units simply ran amok.