VI4 becomes vSphere?

I just read about this here, but google vSphere for full blogosphere (hehe) treatment on the subject. So the product that would have naturally been called ‘VMware Infrastructure 4′ will be called ‘vSphere’. Hmmm… upon hearing it for the first time, I had a few thoughts:

“Don’t vSphere the Reaper…”

“The only thing we have to vSphere is vSphere itself…”

“vSphere: The OS with Big B….”  Errr…. scratch that one. Oops! That made it worse… I will preemptively apologize to those I’ve just offended. Sorry!

So, what’s the point of all that? Nothing, really. Just my silly ramblings over what I consider a silly name change. But I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a creative marketing type, so maybe it will eventually make sense and roll off the tongue without sounding weird. [insert rimshot]

[tap tap tap] Is this thing on?