Today’s post is dedicated to John Troyer of VMware – it’s big JT’s birthday (21 again eh, John!). I’ve known John professionally since 2005 when I first setup my VMware Forum account because I thought this virtualization thing looked interesting. John was the guy who persuaded to move my then circa 1997 website into this new fangled blog format – and I was rewarded with efforts by becoming one of the first external blogs to be listed on the VMTN site. Pretty quickly John has become my go-to guy for many of my different relationships with VMware – and he has personally opened many doors for me. I can honestly say I wouldn’t really be where I am now in my career had John not championed bloggers like myself in the early days. Those first few seedlings have blossomed in whole garden of people who are now a part of a much large and richer community. We have John to thank for being such a good gardener…

Of course I’ve met John on number of social occasions – especially when I’m in San Francisco as I have a UK buddy who lives very near by to him. He’s a great big bear (or should that be wookie?) of a guy – warmhearted, cracking sense of humour and credit to the company he works for.

Anyway, happy birthday John – hope you and Kathleen celebrate in style – and I will see you again in HMB soon with luck!

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