Will Dell eat VMware? Or will Carl Icahn snack on Dell? And where does Uber fit in? Yes, Uber!

Why he’d want to go from a stable, ethically-led company to the controversial world of Uber is anyone’s guess.

Well, if he won't do it for money, maybe he'll do it for a shitload of money?

As CFO, maybe he'd enjoy the challenge of fixing Uber's finances.

Don't expect that many IT Departments to upgrade to VShere 6.7, as they aren't going to buy new Servers with Intel or AMD Processors that were made from 2012, onward. The penny pinchers won't allow that. And since the support contract ends at the same time as VSphere 6.5, there's no advantage to laying out that much cash for the same length of support contract.

The majority of customers are on a 3 or 4 year refresh cycle for servers. In power and support costs that makes sense. Binary translation was the thing needed by 2011 and below CPUs, pulling that out must save a bunch of headaches.

HTML5 interface is finally all there! Flash can do in the bin where it belongs.

Other big thing is security, though much of it requires an (expensive) 3rd party key management service, but you can then have a chain of trust - expect it will sell will into very security focussed environments (which should probably be most of them these days but isn't)