From VMware and Salesforce.com (VMforce) to VMware and Google: VMware's PaaS Milestones

Three weeks ago, VMware and Salesforce.com launched VMforce, a Salesforce-hosted platform as a service (PaaS) solution based on VMware runtime technology and force.com application services. In my analysis of the announcement, I wrote: "VMware wants us to know they are under the covers because of course they have much larger aspirations than to be a provider to Salesforce.com. They want to use this as a proof point to sell their SpringSource+VMware stack in other settings, such as private clouds and other public cloud providers...."

Well, looks like there wasn’t much of an exclusivity period after all as today VMware is going on another date -- this time with Google App Engine (GAE). But a comparison of the two partnerships reveals that there is a lot more in the VMforce announcement than in today’s collaboration.

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