Upgrade Status

In his keynote at VMworld, Paul Maritz predicted that 75% of customers intend to upgrade to VMware vSphere by the end of 2009. The chart below illustrates the anticipated adoption rate. Considering that vSphere shipments started in May and that VMware has such a large installed base largely made up of enterprises, meeting this year's end goal would be one of the more remarkable upgrade adoption rates in the software industry and a real testament of the customer loyalty that VMware has built. If this is the case, then many companies in the VMware ecosystem need to quickly understand the difference that vSphere adoption will make with regards to customer demand.