Mac, you mentioned the ANY board isn't for conducting DD on ANY (I suppose it includes the DD stickies posted on here as well). With that being said, you mentioned doing some extensive research on ANY. Outside of this board, May I ask where you received your ANY DD info from? I'm sure investors / potential investors would appreciate any leads.
By the way, I don't think anybody here is saying the MSFT or VMware partnerships isn't real. What people are saying, such as myself, is that the partnerships are RESELLER agreements. Resellers are AKA partners, strategic partners, collaborative partners and however fancy term marketing depts wish to use.
Longs have wrongly insinuated a co-promote between MSFT and Sphere. Now that it's been shot down (longs aren't disputing it), the new target is to insinuate a VMWare and Sphere co-market. This is extremely misleading. The "vetting" term is also nonsensical. Sphere is simply a customer of Microsoft and VMware.
There is Huuuge difference between a reselling partner and a co-promote. The revenue potentials are absolutely night and day. Sphere is selling their products on their own. That is the truth and I think that better explains between the "real" versus not real that you eluded to in your post.
Don't believe it? Let it be settled by Asking Peter Bookman himself:
"Peter, regarding Vmware, is VMWare co-promoting with Sphere where VMware is reselling sphere products?"
I can guarantee PB won't go there.
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