Apologies to my dear readers for the language, I had to use Brian Madden's "own words" when he said that to his own audience in his VDI vs. TS VMworld2008 session. Read on:

Today I got a marketing email telling me about the "new 33 announced tech sessions" of the BriForum2009, and a promotion code to go and register there. I ignored it since I'm not interested, and kept doing whatever I was doing at that time.

Few minutes later my twitter was flooded with all this "VMware banning competing vendors bla bla bla" thing which was originally posted on this link. Again I ignored it because I know the guy is nuts and he always like to appear as if he's the hero who's saving the virtualization industry all the time. I said I'll just wait for the real VMware story.

And sure enough, a small VMware response appeared here, and then some tweets came in with Brian's new update on his blog. I thought it might be fun to see how he's going to respond to that, and of course there were lots of "I'm the hero" and "I rock" between the lines, which was fine by me until I reached this last paragraph:

"Now I only have one small complaint about their "official" response: They say that text is industry standard for conferences. I think they mean for vendor conferences, because we have no such text at BriForum. "

Well, screw you mister! This is a cheap way to promote your upcoming event which your fellows at techtarget have been marketing about since the beginning of the day, and apparently needed some more attention to the ads you have at the end of your post. Everybody knows that you are a Citrix guy and that's what you are doing for living, so don't you dare pretend to be "vendor neutral" now.

It's not YOU who will come and tell the community that VMware is avoiding the competition in VMworld, and it's not US who put the pressure on VMware to do otherwise. There are so many examples in the last VMworld events showing that this is not the case, and that they are fair. Go check who won for example the "Best of Show" in VMworld2008, it's (Reflex) for a product that VMware were working so hard at that time to come up with an equivalent to, which is known now as "vShield Zones".

Now, on the extremely opposite side, do you remember the Microsoft childish and unprofessional acts at that time with their "Casino chips"? Do you really think VMware will just invite them back and tell them (oh please be my guest, but bring some more this time). They have every right to prevent this kind of things to happen again.

As a matter of fact, I think that VMware is doing a huge mistake inviting both Microsoft and Citrix to VMworld. If I wanted to attend VMworld or even purchase the sessions & Labs for later access, I only do that because I'm interested in VMware solutions and products. Microsoft has its own TechEd, and Citrix has the iForum and Synergy, I would rather go to the TechEd (or again buy the sessions CDs) to have in-depth information from real engineers about Hyper-V rather than watching a bunch of a so-called "myth-busters" coming on the stage talking awkwardly about their product and how it's better than VMware in its own event.

Seriously, what is that? Is this some kind of a joke or what, are we being looked at as if we are stupid and should accept someone coming and telling us this crap!

To all who is reading these lines, I encourage you to go and register for the BriForum below, maybe he'll make some money out of that and save us this cheap ways of marketing in the future.