What's in a name?
The eagle-eyed amongst us may notice a few changes on the VMware.com site today. And no, I'm not talking about the general availability of VMware Lifecycle Manager or even the release of VMware Server Beta 2. Care to guess? I will send one "I <3 VMware" sticker to the first person who gets it in the comments.
[Update: kudos to Duncan and Frank -- ESX and ESXi are now the foundation for your dynamic and automated data center. There is no longer a Server installed on your Server.]
Posted by John Troyer on March 31, 2008 in VMware Infrastructure 3
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Is it the large VMware logo is gone?
Posted by: David Sanders | March 31, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Nope, not it. There are hints in the metadata of this blog post.
Posted by: John Troyer | March 31, 2008 at 01:00 PM
ESXi?
Posted by: Duncan | March 31, 2008 at 01:06 PM
I agree with Duncan ESXi
Posted by: Paul Shannon | March 31, 2008 at 01:19 PM
The (c) or (tm) in the logo?
Posted by: Jan | March 31, 2008 at 01:32 PM
Not an EMC company anymore?
Posted by: Frank Poelert | March 31, 2008 at 01:36 PM
You changed your logo. The HTML source for the page includes:
However, I can't seem to load that graphic directly, so I don't know exactly how it changed....
Posted by: Rob Shaw-Fuller | March 31, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Virtual Infrastructure is now apparently called "VMware Infrastructure"?
Posted by: nolan | March 31, 2008 at 01:52 PM
1/2 marks and a Sticker to Mr Yellow Bricks, but just to draw it out in a slightly tedious way, another sticker if you get the bigger change on the ESX page. You probably don't notice because unless you have the corporate marketing police after you, you've always called it this.
Posted by: John Troyer | March 31, 2008 at 01:53 PM
Is it the Worldwide drop down?
Posted by: Sticky | March 31, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Gone is the term "server" from ESX verbage...?
Posted by: Frank | March 31, 2008 at 01:57 PM
@nolan -- actually, it's always officially been "VMware Infrastructure", but we get it wrong ourselves sometimes, even in print.
Posted by: John Troyer | March 31, 2008 at 01:58 PM
And Franks gets the big picture! ESX Server is now ESX, and ESX Server 3i is now ESXi. Welcome to your new VMware Infrastructure, pretty much the same as the old VMware Infrastructure.
Posted by: John Troyer | March 31, 2008 at 02:01 PM
Is is that it's not called ESX "Server"? Just ESX and ESXi?
Shucks, someone already answered while I was typing this...
Posted by: Doug Hazelman | March 31, 2008 at 02:03 PM
can i please get the "I <3" part of the sticker ;-)
Posted by: Duncan | March 31, 2008 at 02:25 PM
The versions will still not match : )
Posted by: Andrew Kutz | March 31, 2008 at 03:59 PM
No mention of being an EMC company??
Posted by: Mike Tedescucci | March 31, 2008 at 05:10 PM
The page title still contains "ESX Server 3i" / "ESX Server".
Posted by: ab | April 01, 2008 at 04:25 AM