What VMware's bid to join OpenStack really means

The news at VMworld that VMware was applying to join the OpenStack Foundation sounded a little like Microsoft asking to join the Linux Foundation. Really? VMware is embracing a stack of open source bits that does much of what VMware's expensive, proprietary software does? Why would it do that? The answer lies deep in the nature of OpenStack and in VMware's vision of its own future.Neil Diamond Alex Rodriguez Will Smith Dick Wolf