If its not that advanced, why aren't you selling your company to VMware today? Clearly this problem is extremely difficult and having met some of the Nicira team, I'd say this problem could not have been tackled by most software engineers. There are some wicked distributed systems problems among other things.

You clearly don't comprehend the context in which that statement was made. Specifically, "It's certainly possible that the problem-space is too advanced to really tell it in layman's terms". Conceptually it's not advanced at all, in fact it's not even new. Nowhere do I allude to the implementation as trivial, which it clearly is not.

As a college student in the Valley, I really appreciate your perspective. Its quite easy to get caught up in the rush to do something now without realizing that I have a life full of opportunities ahead of me.

Stanford CS majors who take the AI track are required to take both CS 229 and this course, CS 221, so it definitely presents useful materials and concepts.