Without any press announcement or ticker-tape parade, VMware decided to quietly remove the "server" from the VMware ESX Server product line. In case you missed it, VMware's hypervisor product is no longer called VMware ESX Server. At the same time, VMware ESX Server 3i, the company's thin, hardware integrated hypervisor product, also changed its name. (And I just got used to saying VMware ESX Server 3i). The hyp Without any press announcement or ticker-tape parade, VMware decided to quietly remove the “server” from the VMware ESX Server product line.In case you missed it, VMware’s hypervisor product is no longer called VMware ESX Server. At the same time, VMware ESX Server 3i, the company’s thin, hardware integrated hypervisor product, also changed its name. (And I just got used to saying VMware ESX Server 3i). The hypervisor technology found in VMware’s VI3 product is now simply called “VMware ESX”. And the embedded hypervisor technology formerly known as VMware ESX Server 3i is now known as “VMware ESXi”. VMware’s John Troyer turned the name change into a quick game to find out which of VMware’s VMTN blog readers would find the information out first. It didn’t take long for astute readers to find it, and at the same time, they noticed that VMware dropped the tagline of “an EMC company” from the corporate logo. It doesn’t look as though the company has quite finished changing everything over yet, but the Web site is being updated with the shortened version of the product name. The VMTN challenge concluded but without any official explanation as to why the product name was changed in the first place.Interestingly, after looking around the Internet, it seems as though the original meaning for the “ESX” product comes from “Elastic Sky X”, while the old GSX Server product (now called VMware Server) comes from “Ground Storm X”. I’m sure there is an interesting story there as well. Software Development