[NikolaNovak]

Agreed; by design and by emergence, there is a self-reinforcing audience on Hacker News with occasionally fairly homogenous set of interests and preferences.

I've spent my entire career working with Big Freaking Enterprises, but understand and accept that likes of IBM, HP, Oracle, SAP, etc will never be perceived as anything but uncool useless dinosaurs on HN. VMWare is being commoditized, and either entering or entered firmly into that category.

[I find it somewhat amusing to occasionally dig out one of the "Big Cool Kids" still uses "Big Ol' Dinosaurs" for HCM, Financials, etc - any back-office work:]