Comments on: Virtualize This: VMware CEO Out, Stock Tanks, Big Revenue Miss

By: For VMware, an Uncertain Future - GigaOM

For VMware, an Uncertain Future - GigaOM — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:56:32 +0000

[...] internal tensions boiled over and led to the firing of co-founder and CEO Diane Greene. She was replaced by Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive whose startup Pi Corp. was acquired [...]

By: For VMWare, An Uncertain World - GigaOM

For VMWare, An Uncertain World - GigaOM — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:50:08 +0000

[...] internal tensions boiled over and led to the firing of co-founder and CEO Diane Greene. She was replaced by Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive whose startup Pi Corp. was acquired [...]

By: Virtualization is Xeround The Corner With An Additional $16 Million | Venture Capital Cafe

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:33:01 +0000

[...] week, VMWare’s stock tanked more than 20% after the surprise resignation of Diane Greene, founder and long-time CEO. While the reason for the sudden resignation is [...]

By: Links List 7.11.08 | ScienceLogic

Links List 7.11.08 | ScienceLogic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:48:17 +0000

[...] is of course Diane Greene’s surprising ousting as CEO of virtualization giant VMware. There was a lot of speculation about the reasoning behind this decision – from stock prices dropping for VMware and parent EMC [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:13:18 +0000

Diane Greene was just the subject of a profile in The Economist : “Diane Greene of VMware favours co-operation over competition. Can she really keep Microsoft at bay?”

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By: All your base are belong to us « Fatguppy’s Weblog

All your base are belong to us « Fatguppy’s Weblog — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:33:13 +0000

[...] “I think something big is going on — no CEO and co-founder just up and quits the company. The numbe…“ [...]

By: RD

RD — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:09:02 +0000

Saurabh, may be it is move to make it VMNowhere.

By: links for 2008-07-08 : Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin

links for 2008-07-08 : Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:32:05 +0000

[...] Virtualize This: VMware CEO Out, Stock Tanks, Big Revenue Miss - GigaOM It’s fairly common for a founder to get replaced as CEO when the company grows. And it’s obvious, especially to VMware customers, that the company has had some growing pains. EMC stock has taken a beating because of VMware. This isn’t unexpected. >> Comments | ShareThis [...]

By: VMware CEO Shake Up Thoughts : Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin

VMware CEO Shake Up Thoughts : Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:07:42 +0000

[...] of the Diane Greene/Paul Maritz swap today, as well as the new revenue projections. I first caught Om Malik’s take, read Bernd Harzog’s comments on Paul Maritz, and then went from Adam Lashinsky’s blog [...]

By: Saurabh Kaushik

Saurabh Kaushik — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:07:01 +0000

As a layman, my understanding of VMWare’s triumph is just opposite to today’s cloud computing. Their core concept was to simulate a given hardware into multiple computing units. But here, cloud computing is more about integrating all given hardware to one giant computing unit. What is Martiz planning to do? VMWhere!!! ;-p

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:43:27 +0000

There was something in the air before the US woke up:

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Our take on Diane Greene’s departure:

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By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:49:51 +0000

Virtualization is a great, disruptive space and Diane had done a great job of building it to where it is today.

But who VMWare targets and how they reach them has completely changed.
Virtualization is bypassing the IT Dtrs & CIOs (where VMWare salesreps are used to targeting) and barreling right to the CEO-CFO suite.

So a cloud play makes perfect sense. “Get those apps up & running quickly so we can recognize revenues, decrease Data Ctr energy costs and rapidly respond to our customers ever-changing demands” - and CEO & CFOs don’t really care what happens behind the “magic curtain”.

Paul Maritz totally gets that.

By: JonV

JonV — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:41:26 +0000

Interesting. I love VMware and use it daily for my window only apps that I still own. I hope they can weather the storm ahead and come out blazin’.

By: Dan Perlman

Dan Perlman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:27:38 +0000

Too bad really. Diane Greene did a great job.