This session was an open dicussion/QA Session with some of the TOP players in the VMTN Forums. I was in the audience. So I guess that means I’m not so big a fish in the VMTN Forums as I thought I was!

Joking aside – it was actually quite a relief not to be up there on the platform with the spotlight shinning down on little ole me – with people hoping to have their annoyances elevated and the problems washed away.

So, who shone out from the group. For me it had to be Ken Kline of HP. I’ve message’d Ken quite a bit from the forums. But this VMworld was the first time I had met the man in person. You could meet a nicer, easier going guy… Always there with a subtle insight – that rocked my view of the world.

What came out of this session? Well, something I had heard privately voiced amongst the people who manage the VMTN environment. They want a more “interactive” community. Something that is more real-time and live. For me this could a “Second Life” for VMware. So you better get out there and buy a VMware Island – and build a train station to get those second-life people to the meeting room!

The other thing they seem to leaning towards is a kind of wiki for virtualisation - not specifically VMware.

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