Tried to post this message on the Yahoo message board in response to a poster over there who attempts to discredit Simon Bramfitt. For some reason I get a "failed to post" when I try to post it there so I thought I would post it here instead.
It is almost comical to see zigzags attempts at trying to diminish the importance of Simon Bramfitt becoming Sphere 3Ds' Chief Technologist.
Simon Bramfitt is an acknowledged EXPERT in the field of virtualization. He has written dozens of articles for a variety of technical magazines and has been quoted in Forbes. He is the founder and principal analyst at Entelechy Associates where he covers application delivery, desktop management and virtualization technologies. Bramfitt works extensively with end-user organizations, advising them on architecture and best practices for both private cloud and desktop transformation initiatives, and with technology startups. He has worked with application delivery and endpoint management technologies for over 25 years and has long been recognized as a thought leader in the virtualization space.
In his attempt to discredit Mr. Bramfitt, zigzag accuses him of falsely claiming that the Chesterfield County school district was not involved with using GlassWare 2.0 when they purchased 32,000 Chromebooks for their students. zigzags claim is the only thing false here.
This is a quote from Brian D. Jones Assistant Director, Technology, Chesterfield County Public Schools:
"I'm writing in response to your question concerning Sphere 3D's GlassWare product and our Chromebooks. We have acquired a test environment server with the GlassWare product."
So, CCPS indeed was involved with Sphere and GlassWare at the time of Simons article. The only thing that changed was that CCPS decided to delay for a year the implementation of a virtualization product for their Chromebooks. More quotes from Mr. Jones: "We have been successful (using GlassWare) with several applications. We are now in the process of assessing our virtualization needs.
For the next school year we will be investigating the opportunities provided by a number of companies to deliver non-Chrome programs to student Chromebooks."
Not unusual at all for Governmental agencies to delay decisions.
Since zigzag attempts to pass himself off as a tech expert, I would love to see him provide links to some of the "expert" articles he has written.
