Only in Silicon Valley could a 1998 startup, VMware, grow to $3 billion in sales and live in the shadow of another 1998 startup, Google. That's because VMware sells enterprise software to those most anonymous of corporate executives-chief information officers at large companies. CIOs are in a jam these days, facing chaotic change ushered in by smartphones and cloud computing. I talked about it with VMware's chief, Rhodesian-born Paul Maritz.
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