Following on from VMware CTO Steve Herrod's announcement that he is to leave his role [http://cto.vmware.com/transition-in-our-industry-and-for-me/], I joked on twitter that this was actually a response to the prospect of being accosted by Gregg Robertson and Darren Woollard at VMworld [http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/vmworld-europe-2012-day-1/