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VMware rockets; Virtualization hits Wall Street

Update 2: VMware shares closed at $51.Update 1: As of 11:15 am. EDT, VMware shares were trading at $51, well above the $29 offering price. MarketWatch is reporting that VMware has the best opening of 2007--assuming the current price holds of course.Shares of VMware topped out at $55.Original post:VMware's IPO...

Tags: Virtualization, VMware Inc., IPO, Wall, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-14

VMware IPO could raise $100 million

VMware IPO could raise $100 millionRead the filingThe $100 million was used to establish the filing fees.It's more likely that VMware will raise a billion $.

Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, VMware Inc., VMware IPO, IPO

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

VMware IPO - Why now?

VMware IPO - Why now?VMware IPO - Its the peopleI think the rationale is much simplier - XenSource and all the other startup comapanies in the virtualization and virtualization management space are able to give their employees equity and hence significant upside.VMare has lost some key people to these players...

Tags: Investment, VMare, VMware Inc., EMC stock, EMC Corp., stock, IPO, VMware IPO, virtualization

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

Additional Resources

VMWare, National Lampoon & Lawsuits/Investigations

Weird News of the Week I saw an advertisement in a major magazine where litigators are looking for shareholders of VMWare for a class action lawsuit. A Google search shows several recent results on the same story but here's one that's fairly explanatory. PR-Inside is reporting...

Tags: Stock, VMware Inc., PR-Inside, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-17

The Facebook dilemma: Sell or Wait? What would you do?

Decisions. Decisions. It's the Silicon Valley dilemma. You're working for a company that's wildly popular, growing like crazy, not really bringing in any money but not dealing with financial pressures of Wall Street either. There's probably a fortune to be made in stock options when the company...

Tags: Facebook, Stock Options, Investment, IPO, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Financial Services, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-04

VMWare employees to receive new pricing on underwater stock options

The last thing any employee wants is stock options that are "under water." But that's exactly what some VMWare employees who were issued options after the August IPO are stuck with. After the IPO, VMWare's stock climbed and climbed - from $57.71 on its first day to about $125 in...

Tags: Stock Option, Employee, Stock, VMware Inc., Pricing Strategy, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?

Do you need to be a programmer to run a software company?It's back to square oneIn fact, the new Internet-based platforms (Google App Engine, Microsofts upcoming platform to complement SSDS) are creating an entirely new platform. This change is as profound as the change in the early 80's. To succeed...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, software, software company

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

NetSuite's numbers are not what they appear

NetSuite's numbers are not what they appearOfficial response from NetSuite to inaccurately cited customer dataDennis, some points of clarification:1. On our call and in our filings we talk about active customers. Customers are not considered "active" until they go live with the product. Since customers choose their own...

Tags: Blogging, Dennis Howlett, NetSuite Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

News to know: Microsoft's Hyper-V and reorg; NetSuite; Cisco patches; MacBook Air diary

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Review: Microsoft’s Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice Dana Gardner: Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center Dan Kusnetzky: Why is the concept of virtual machine software so sticky? Former Microsoft...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., NetSuite Inc., Apple MacBook, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Social Networking, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-02-15

What to make of Sun buying Innotek?

You can take the company out of the proprietary software market, but you can't take the proprietary attitude out of the company. I think that's the best way to explain Sun's purchase of Innotek, the German developer of the open source VirtualBox. Microsoft now...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-14

News to know: Yahoo; Microsoft; Windows worm hole; Demo 08

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Vista and Windows Server 2008--an unbreakable couple? Microsoft seeks new Windows Media Center testers Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available Larry Dignan: Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb. Techmeme eBay outlines...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Mesh Networking, Software, Networking

Blog posts 2008-01-30

Sybase: The next big target for acquisition?

Sybase announced its financial results today, calling it the best quarter and year in the company's 23-year history. Total revenue topped $295 million for Q407 and the full year exceeded $1 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2006. Full-year GAAP operating income increased 26...

Tags: Acquisition, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Sustaining Virtualization's ROI: How a Disciplined Process and Complementary Technologies Can Make It Happen by Bill Tohtz

On August 13, 2007, the highly anticipated VMware public offering stunned the Wall Street investment community. The virtualization software company - whose IPO price was set at $29 - zoomed to $56 by day's end and has continued to climb. It is hard to remember a situation where the Wall...

Tags: Sayers, ROI, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-12-22

News to know: IE 8; 50W dual-core PC; Oracle; NetSuite; Dell snafu

Notable headlines: George Ou: Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer Mary Jo Foley: Internal Microsoft IE 8 build passes the Acid standards test. MSDN blog. Opera: Acid or no, its Microsoft antitrust complaint goes forward Adrian Kingsley Hughes: First...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Dual-core, Oracle Corp., PC, NetSuite Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Keyboards, E-health, Business Structures, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Processors, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Finance, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2007-12-20

News to know: Dell's tablet PC; SAP on VMware; Office Live Workspace; The transistor's birthday

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Dell launches its first tablet PC; Hopes touch boosts interest. Techmeme. VMware, SAP in virtualization support pact; Will ERP implementations become easier? David Morgenstern: Waiting for Leopard's iSCSI support News.com: Silicon Valley celebrates...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Tablet PC, Transistor, NetSuite Inc., Microsoft Office Live, SAP AG, VMware Inc., Tablet, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2007-12-11

SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?

SAP and TIBCO: a marriage to make in hell?More matchmaking ideas for what they're worthDennis, thanks for referencing my article from last spring. I know you realize this, Dennis, but for others, please note that I wasn't thinking about mergers and acquisitions as Dennis is. I was just writing...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, IBM Corp., TIBCO Software Inc., Dennis

Discussion threads 2007-10-15

EMC buys Berkeley Data Systems, creator of Mozy

EMC said it has acquired Berkeley Data Systems, best known for its Mozy, online information and backup services. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the acquisition will have no impact on EMC's revenue or earnings. In other words, EMC is acquiring a small...

Tags: EMC Corp., Berkeley Data Systems, Mozy, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Citrix' strategy is your moment of Xen

John Bara,vice president of marketing for XenSource, isn't afraid to admit that Citrix' new strategy includes more than just a single moment of Xen. John called soon after introducing XenSource OEM edition, which he called a key to making virtualization into a standard PC capability over the...

Tags: Strategy, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., XenSource Inc., Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Virtualization is hot because Windows is not.

Like many frustrated Unix weenies I bear a long standing resentment for the way Microsoft simply obliterated the enterprise server market back in the mid 90’s. Whether your favorite flavor was Solaris, HPUX, AIX, or IRIX (mine!) a Unix guy grew up with things like reliability, uptime, shared resources, multitasking,...

Tags: Virtualization, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Citrix makes bold virtualization move with XenSource acquisition, muddies waters with Microsoft

Citrix Systems Inc. today roared full throttle into the ever-expanding desktop virtualization arena, when it announced its intention to acquire XenSource, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. The news comes right on the heels of VMWare's huge IPO pop. The $500-million acquisition will provide the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Citrix with a...

Tags: Desktop, Acquisition, Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., XenSource Inc., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-20