Rodos posted a very nice blog covering the big events that involved VMware in 2008.  Like he states, I do not believe this is the entire list, but I tell you what….It has definietely been busy enough for me, I am ready for a little R&R – 2009 is sure to be even busier!

Jan

• Acquisition of Thinstall
• Stage Manager released
• Virtual Desktop Manager 2.0 released
• Microsoft acquires Calista
• Quest acquires Vizioncore

Feb

• VMworld Europe
• VMsafe announced

March

• Lifecycle Manager released

April

• Update 1 released

May

• Site Recovery Manager released
• Stage Manager released
• Management and Automation bundles (M&A) released
• Acquisition of B-hive
• First Communities Round Table Podcast

June

• Virtual Desktop Manager 2.1 released

July

• ThinApp 4.0 released
• Diane Greene is out and Paul Maritz is in
• VMware Infrastructure Toolkit released
• Free version of ESXi released
• Citrix XenDesktop released
• Update 2 released

August

• Lab Manager 3 released
• Update 2 time bomb failure and re-release of Update 2
• Microsoft announces support for 31 applications running under a Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) listed hypervisor.

September

• Mendel Rosenblum leaves
• ESX qualifies as first hypervisor for Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)
• VMworld
• VMware announces VDC-OS, vCloud and View
• Fusion 2.0 released
• Teradici partnership
• Cisco and VMware announce the Cisco Nexus 1000V & VN-Link
• Workstation 6.5 released

November

• VMware acquires Tungsten Graphics
• Update 3 released

December

• VMware renames most components of the product line
• View Manager 3 released
• Site Recovery Manager Update 1 released