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VMware Inc.

Campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California
Type	Publicly-traded subsidiary
Traded as	: VMW : DVMT (Dell Technologies Class V common stock - tracking stock for VMware)
Industry	Computer software
Founded	October 26, 1998; 19 years ago (1998-10-26) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founder	Diane Greene Mendel Rosenblum Scott Devine Ellen Wang Edouard Bugnion
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, United States
Key people	Michael Dell (Chairman) Pat Gelsinger (CEO) Sanjay Poonen (COO)
Products	VMware vSphere VMware ESXi VMware Workstation VMware Integrated Openstack VMware Fusion VMware Player VMware Server (discontinued) VMware Service Manager VMware ThinApp VMware View ACE Lab Manager VMware Infrastructure Converter Site Recovery Manager Stage Manager vRealize Automation vRealize Operations VMware NSX vRealize Business VMware vSAN AppVolumes vRealize LogInsight vRealize Network Insight vRealize CodeStream vRealize Orchestrator
Revenue	US$7.093 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$1.439 billion (2016)
Net income	US$1.186 billion (2016)
Total assets	US$16.643 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$8.097 billion (2016)
Owner	Dell Technologies (82.8%)
Number of employees	20,000 (2016)
Website	www.vmware.com

VMware, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies that provides cloud computing and platform virtualization software and services. It was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, while its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware ESXi, is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Ellen Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley. Edouard Bugnion remained the chief architect and CTO of VMware until 2005, and went on to found Nuova Systems (now part of Cisco). For the first year, VMware operated in stealth mode, with roughly 20 employees by the end of 1998. The company was launched officially early in the second year, in February 1999, at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley. The first product, VMware Workstation, was delivered in May 1999, and the company entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server (hosted) and VMware ESX Server (hostless).