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VMware Inc.

(VMW) is in the Technology Industry

Market Cap:$4.5B

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.3B

Public
US

Dow Jones Description

VMware, an EMC company, is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California.

Number of Employees 5,000

Contact Information

3401 Hillview Avenue

Palo Alto, California 94304

www.vmware.com

(877) 486-9273

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Software Publishers: 511210

Company News

Recent Events

vSphere 4.1: Seven Improvements In Internal Clouds

11/24/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
VMware vSphere 4, vCenter Server updates now available

11/23/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
VMware releases vSphere 4.0 Update 1

11/20/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
NetApp's Georgens reports improved revenue; shrugs off EMC-Cisco deal

11/20/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
Ars Technica reviews VMware Fusion 3: A solid choice for running Windows, Windows apps on...

11/18/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Observations from an EMC analyst day

11/17/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
EMC Adds Desktop, Laptop and Virtualization Support to Avamar Deduplication Technology

11/17/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Hosted Solutions Expands the Stratus Trusted Cloud, Unveiling Hybrid Option, Complementing Existing Offerings

11/18/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
5 things missing in VMware's new virtual desktop app

11/15/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
5 Things Missing in VMware's New Virtual Desktop App, View 4

11/13/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
VMware View Delivers Follow Me Desktop for Healthcare Practitioners

11/11/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
VMware Releases View 4

11/10/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
ACS partners with VMware

11/09/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
Siemens Strikes Virtualization Partnership with VMware Expanded relationship to provide customers with new virtualization options

11/05/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story
VMware Virtualizes Datacenter Infrastructure for SAP Managed Services

11/02/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
VMware to launch own Linux distro?

10/31/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Notable Analyst Rating Changes 10/30: OMX, TXN, RVSN, SXE, DISH Upgraded; MON< VMW, BYD, NDN...

10/30/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
Goldman Sachs Downgraded VMware VMW to Neutral On Valuation

10/30/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
Veeam integrates with VMware vStorage APIs in Backup and Replication 4

10/28/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Parallels Upgrades Mac Virtualization Software

11/04/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

springsource and vmware inc. - All News and Analysis

Will all the good open source companies be acquired?

BNET - 2009-08-12

Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy, Sun's purchase of MySQL, Oracle's purchase...

Tags: open source
VMware Buys SpringSource to Boost Java

BNET - 2009-08-11

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software maker VMware Inc has agreed to buy privately held SpringSource for $420 million, its biggest-ever acquisition, to beef up a portfolio of programs that help companies run data centers. VMware said on Monday the deal would hurt non-GAAP profitability through at least 2010, but...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., VMware Inc.
VMware and SpringSource: It`s All About the Cloud, Baby

BNET - 2009-08-11

Though Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner most of the headlines on Aug. 10, the bigger story for the enterprise was easily VMware's announcement of its intent to acquire SpringSource for $362 million to bolster its cloud strategy against Microsoft and others.Though Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner...

Tags: VMware Inc.
VMware buys SpringSource for USD420m

Strategy Eye - 2009-08-10

Software maker VMware is buying cloud computing and virtualisation software firm SpringSource in a cash-and-stock deal worth USD362m. The firm is also assuming USD58m in unvested stock and options. The deal pushes VMware further into the world of cloud computing,...

Tags: Cloud Computing, VMware Inc., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Rackspace, Editorial, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
VMware buys SpringSource

Financial Times - 2009-08-10

VMware, the fast-growing software maker, yesterday pulled off its biggest acquisition so far with the announcement of a $362m cash-and-stock purchase of privately held SpringSource.The deal pushes VMware, majority-owned by EMC, deeper into the emerging business of "cloud" computing - developing and running corporate applications in big datacentres and...

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