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VMware looks beyond virtualisation with its end-user computing strategy

Earlier this week I had an interesting call with VMware’s CTO of SaaS and Application Services, Javier Soltero, to find out the thinking behind its acquisition of microblogging vendor, Socialcast, in May this year. As a collaboration analyst, I have not had any real contact with VMware up until now – at least, apart from [...]

Posted on Friday, October 7, 2011 by

Market activities this week

There have been two notable events this week in the collaboration software market – firstly the acquisition of Zimbra by Yahoo! on Tuesday, followed by Novell’s reach into the broader collaboration market through the release of two new products, Novell Teaming and Novell Teaming and Conferencing. Yahoo’s purchase of Zimbra, a small, California-based start-up which [...]

Posted on Thursday, September 20, 2007 by