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...VMware equity at $48.4bn....
...The management team also includes Ian Osborne, a former partner at DST Global, whose investments include Alibaba, Airbnb and Facebook, and Tony Bates, who serves on the boards of eBay, VMware and GoPro....
...Much of the credit for the deal’s success is down to Mr Schultz....
...Its new Class V shares will represent some 65 per cent of its stake in VMware — though holders will have no direct rights in VMware, and Dell will have the right to switch the underlying assets and businesses...
...unveils Zimbra Desktop Can VMware succeed where Yahoo!...
...V.G. Siddhartha is a reluctant interviewee. Initially rebuffing a request from the Financial Times, he politely e-mailed: “I don’t think I have got any great story at this time.”...
...It supports both VMware and Microsoft virtualisation technologies....
...The offerings pair Sun’s Fire servers and storage hardware with either VMWare ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation software....
...The software giant has announced a free version of Hyper-V Server 2008, its key virtualisation product, in a bid to woo businesses away from EMC, owner of VMware, the leading ”hypervisor” or virtualisation...
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