VMware has announced a whole series of product renames – to make it clear to everyone what their products are about. [Pause for laughing]. Of course VMware got the whole darn idea from RTFM. I’ve been saying vCenter for sometime. Once I even had my hand slapped by someone in VMware for calling VirtualCenter vCenter instead. I was taken to nearest bathroom, and mouth was washed out with soap and water – just like my granny did when I used to swear at her. I was an angelic child you see.

So anyway. Forget about VirtualCenter that’s so 2003, its vCenter now – that’s 2009.

I guess VMware are not alone in this product-name-goal-post-moving-exercise-because-some-marketing-PR-person-said-it-would-be-good-idea stuff. Here’s all the names that Citrix have had for using a ICA client to thinly deliver a desktop or application.

WinFrame Server, MetaFrame 1.8 Server, MetaFrame XP Server, Presentation Server, XenApp…

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