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Company type | Subsidiary |
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NYSE: VMW (2007–2023) | |
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Founded | February 10, 1998 Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Fate | Acquired by Broadcom |
Headquarters | Stanford Research Park Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
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Services | Virtualization software, SaaS, Cloud |
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Number of employees | 38,300 (2023) |
Parent | Broadcom |
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Website | vmware.com |
Footnotes / references Financials as of February 3, 2023[update][1] |
VMware LLC was an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.[2] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.[3]
VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system[4] that runs on server hardware.[5]
On November 22, 2023, Broadcom Inc. acquired VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at US$69 billion,[6] with the End-User Computing (UEC) Division of VMware then sold to KKR and rebranded to Omnissa. Since the acquisition, more than 30% of VMware's employees have been terminated.
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