What happened with Dell abs VMware? I noticed recently Michael Dell has been on a publicity interview tour to promote his auto-hagiography and of course says nothing bad about the Dell - VMware merger.
In my personal opinion, this was generally to the detriment of VMware's products (downward pressure to focus on features that made little or no sense, except to give Dell marketing talking points; bad impact on morale by doing things like decreasing employee benefits quality so DellEMC and VMware could jointly reap discounts), played a role in frivolous acquisitions, and generally (and understandably) caused OEMs other than Dell to disengage and keep VMware at arms-length.