{"id":1572,"date":"2010-12-30T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmdamentals.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:16:33","slug":"2011-a-different-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"2011: a Different Point of View"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 2010 certainly has been a very restless year for me. Lost some dear people, gained some new life around me too. The company I worked for, Dataman (www.dataman.nl<\/a>) went bankrupt. I agreed to be part of a merger where employees from Dataman would merge with iTricity (www.itricity.nl<\/a>).
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\niTricity was under a lot of financial pressure as well. A very well known Dutch investor (Van den Ende & Deitmers also known as “EnDeit”) would come into play, enabling iTricity to become a healty company with the added knowledge of the people from Dataman. But all of this was not to be as everyone would have liked: The investor made a last-second decision not to participate, and the fused Dataman-iTricity company was left in the dirt. Now iTricity is fighting to continue its existence in a smaller format with another investor. All in all a very emotional time for everyone involved. <\/p>\n

So what comes from all of this action in a small but technically advanced country like the Netherlands? Exactly: Stalking by headhunters and opportunities you hadn’t thought of. Spoke with some great guys (like for example Daan Huisman<\/a>) really trying to help instead of just wanting to make easy money. Two ex-collegues of mine, Duco Jaspars (vConsult.nl)<\/a> and Henk Arts (VMstarter.nl)<\/a> showed me a vacancy at a big international company, which struck me as a great job indeed.<\/p>\n

Finally, in the very last days of 2010 I got the news, and yep, I’m pretty proud of it too:
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(Teaser Alert!)<\/strong>
\nAs of February 2011, I’m joining an international team of some of the greatest VMware experts!
\nThis team is part of a company very well known and respected in the VMware community.<\/em><\/center>
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\nSo in the end, 2010 turned out to be a good year after all. “Dessert makes up for everything!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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