I just escaped the Dubiously-Evil Empire, and now Gigaom tells me that I really didn’t in their article “VMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS”.  Gigaom looks at VMware’s history, acquisitions, and recent launches to conclude:

With VMware holding the keys to the hypervisor layer and management, then the platform layer, and even the cloud applications layer with email from Zimbra, and presentations from Slide Rocket, why do I need Windows?

Hopefully this means that my VMW stock will continue to go up, unlike all of the MSFT stock that I still have …