Partner News Podcast: VMware leadership change

By Staff
18 Jul 2008 | SearchITChannel.com

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VMware fired CEO and co-founder Diane Greene last week, citing a lack of "operational experience," and named former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz as her successor. This week we hear from Chris Wolf, senior analyst with the Burton Group, on how the leadership change could affect VMware partners. He also discusses the reasons for Greene's firing and VMware's strategy to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V in the server virtualization market.

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