Replies to post #45792 on Sphere 3D Corp. (ANY)

[derek32smith]

I agree with all of what you say about the players. Simply criminal scam artists.

However, the product never worked. Period. It was not a hypervisor, (and was never marketed as such).

There is ZERO evidence from the company they had a working product. Never mind a product that delivered economic value or could compete. Your would speak to people like the Director ofIT at New Caney.

And Citrix is nowhere close to being the largest virtualization vendor. They lag substantially behind market leader VMware.

PS I still chuckle when I recall the conversation I had with the CTO of VMware at the time of the Horizon product release. Man, was he surprised to learn that Glassware and DCO were embedded in Horizon as Bookman claimed.

PS2 any guesses why Bookman deleted that tweet, and that was the last VMware marketing announcement that included Sphere execs?

[My401K]

Derek,

Just for clarification, I use VMware on the system that I'm posting this from because it uniquely handles the range of OS's that I need to run or test including some (typically nearly obsolete) oddball applications and hardware. It also does a decent job of running Ubuntu. The VMware version that I use doesn't reasonably provide for the "anywhere" served desktops that Citrix describes and that I've been familiar with in the past, where it was important that laptops and mobile devices that could be lost or stolen never actually retained confidential, privileged or classified information that needed to be protected. They are kind of two different animals. I guess I really don't know whether Glassware was targeting either of these. They sort of advertised it as "any" capable, like Citrix, but also boasted of a range of operating systems that such an approach could have never reasonably attained in a way that would have been meaningful to the customer base they were courting.

You may very well be right. They may have relied entirely on Azure for virtualization (and "any" functionality), and all they provided was a veneer.

Now that Colbeck has given ANY a four month extension, there probably won't be a lot to talk about for quite a while. It would be really interesting to know what the "milestones" are, but management doesn't seem too eager to disclose these in their filing. My speculation is that the EK deal collapsed, and they're giving management a chance to stop the flow of red ink. Maybe they couldn't find any buyers if they first tainted their assets with the word "default". I suppose we'll see quarterly reports in a few weeks.