So….vmWorld 2012 in beautiful San Francisco.  This is the event where vendors of various shapes and sizes put together their best combination of sizzle and steak.  Sometimes the sizzle outshines the steak, but most of the time, there are very valuable conversations where users really bring home a message to manufacturers about what they want to see in future solutions.  In making the rounds yesterday, I saw more than one person on a unicycle, somebody escaping from a dymatized metal box, a man in straight jacket…on a unicycle, and even a mini half pipe with actual skaters using it.  Lots of flash in hopes of capturing the user community’s attention.

However, in the conversations I had with users (and the ones I overheard by eavesdropping) the most common subject I heard about was simplicity.  Not in those words exactly, but it boiled down to ease of use.  Whether it comes...