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EMC To Acquire VMware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ch-ch-ch-changes dept.

kma writes "According to The Register, virtual machine software maker (and my employer) VMware Inc. will be acquired by storage giant EMC, pending the usual approval process." The article explains: "VMware makes the industry's premier set of partitioning tools for running both Windows and Linux on a single server and running multiple applications on a single system. EMC plans to grab the privately held VMware for $635 million in cash."

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  1. Weird.. by notque · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm installing Vmware GSX right now. I was checking slashdot while the server reboots.

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  2. Whoa by Uma+Thurman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they don't raise VMWare to EMC prices!

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    1. Re:Whoa by mandolin · · Score: 2, Funny
      I hope they don't raise VMWare to EMC prices!

      The joke used to be that EMC stood for "Excessive Margins Corporation".

      I'm assuming they'll have to jack the price just to keep their reputation intact.

  3. Sad new but... by nicophonica · · Score: 2, Funny
    Thank God it's them and not Microsoft. The thought made my blood run cold and has given me nightmares. (Suddenly you apply a patch and the little bug of VMWare allowing Linux to run is suddenly 'fixed')

    Still, it's too bad they couldn't make a go of it independently. It's by far the best value, I actually shelled out $$ for a licensed version, of any piece of software that I've ever purchased.

  4. Re:What's old is new... by nicophonica · · Score: 3, Funny
    Uhm, I think you might want to cool down a bit before you sell everything and invest in this brave new world of mainframe computing.

    Mainframes support 100s or 1000s of concurrent users. VMWare supports about 3. Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant piece of software and there are tons of things that It's good for, from testing software on multiple platforms, to hosting several operating systems for a single user to use. However, it was never designed for and could never be used for hosting large numbers of users in a mainframe type environment.

  5. Re:Gee, Rocky, that M&A trick never works by Drishmung · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or the merger of the International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company, and the Tabulating Machine Company. :)

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