I should start a new category called "More Bad News for VMWare." It would be seeing some heavy use this week.

After yesterday's scene of Microsoft rolling up its shirt sleeves in preparation for a serious engagement in fisticuffs over the enterprise virtualization market, today Chief Scientist and company co-found Mendel Rosenblum announced that he will be leaving VMWare for a career in academia. This is not entirely unexpected, as it's the rare individual who is able to continue working smoothly at a company which has only just recently ousted his wife from the role of CEO... I know that the dinner table would be rather frosty around my house should a similar situation occur. It couldn't be worse timing for VMWare, however, the company having already been battered with Greene's ouster and with no clear plan for recovery exhibited by the replacement CEO, former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz. He'll have to come up with something good at the upcoming VMWorld conference to blunt all this, or company stock is bound to continue its trek toward the cellar.