VMware Unafraid of MSFT, CEO Says

Wade Roush10/22/08

Seattle Tech Report, a blog published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reports that Paul Maritz, CEO of EMC (NYSE: EMC) virtualization subsidiary VMware (NYSE: VMW), dismissed Microsoft’s virtualization efforts as a competitive threat in a conference call with analysts yesterday. The company hasn’t seen major losses to Microsoft’s server virtualization products and “we don’t see them catching up to us in the next 12 to 24 months,” Maritz said.

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