VMware apologies for Microsoft YouTube video
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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A VMware employee has fallen on his sword and apologised, after VMware’s marketing department attempted to be sneaky and anonymously posted a clip of Microsoft’s Hyper-V crashing onto YouTube.
Mary wrote about the debacle earlier this week, giving a good summation of the ridiculous scheme, which pissed off bloggers and Microsoft’s team — mostly because it came off as an unfair and out of context, but also because it was posted anonymously.
Anyway, looks like VMware is trying to bury the hatchet — possible into their marketing team, but that’s another story — with the YouTube poster, VMware’s Scott Drummonds, publically apologising on the VMware blog:
I made a bad call. About a month and a half ago, I anonymously posted a YouTube video depicting a controversial test of Microsoft’s Hyper-V. The video was a bit hyperbolic in its dramatization of Hyper-V’s reliability.
Unfortunately, my intention to stir the pot with eye-poking banter has put my credibility and by association VMware’s credibility in question among some of you. For this I apologize. I’ve removed the video from YouTube. I’ve also sent a note of apology to Jeff Woosley at Microsoft.
My focus, and clearly VMware’s focus, is to help our 140,000 plus customers get the most from their technology investments. This is our commitment. We will absolutely work our best to live up to the high standard you’ve come to expect from us. And when we mess up, we’ll be the first to address the mistake head on.
So hopefully that’s the end of that, then.
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Loading ...Comment by - June 11, 2009 on 9:57 pm
Wouldn’t falling on his sword be resigning? I’d characterise this as tripping over his sword, possibly because he’d left it sticking out of a dead parrot 
Comment by Mike Jones - June 12, 2009 on 10:17 am
It’s not really contrition when you were caught red-handed and denied and downplayed the whole way. It the company had any honor, this gentleman whould be fired.
Comment by - June 12, 2009 on 10:21 am
Okay, fair point both of you — if he was really sorry, he’d quit. Or if VMware was upset, he’d be fired.
But are we really going to call for someone’s job over a stupidly posted YouTube video about hypervisors?
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