VMware acquires Propero - Brian Madden (blog)
” – Major League), VMware bought UK-based ISV Propero. It’s understandable to have missed it - neither VMware nor Propero have publicized the acquisition. But, VMware did list Propero in a list of companies they’d acquired to the SEC (VMware is getting ready for their IPO this summer). info/2007/04/vmware-acquires-propero. I don’t know much about Propero, who makes a desktop broker package called "workSpace for VMware," but conceptually speaking, it had to happen sometime. The VDI space has 5 or 6 peices (servers, storage, virtualization, clients, brokers), and VMware only plays in one (two, if you count their parent company). When VDI was new, “brokers” didn’t exist, so eighteen or even twelve months ago VMware played a big part in half of the infrastructure it took to use VDI. Now VDI is real, and people are using it. And along the way, the broker became an important part of a well-rounded VDI implementation. But all the desktop brokers are new. (FYI – Desktop broker buyers – if your desktop broker company tells you they’ve been in the desktop brokering business for 30, 20, 10, or even three years, they’re LYING. So now VMware has some control over that fifth peice - the "brokers" peice. Source: www.brianmadden.com
