Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 22, 2002

Diane Greene – Vmware Inc

DIANE GREENE has been the Chief Executive Officer of VMware, Inc., since the company's founding. Under Ms. Greene's direction, VMware has developed as the leader of virtualization software for Intel computers, with more than 5,000 corporate customers and 1 million registered users worldwide. Ms. Greene has 20 plus years of high tech industry experience that includes CEO of VXtreme and technical leadership roles at Silicon Graphics, Tandem and Sybase. Ms. Greene holds Master's degrees in Computer Science and Naval Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively. Profile
TWST: Can we start off with a history and overview of VMware?

Ms. Greene: We founded VMware in 1998 to bring mainframe-class

virtual machines to industry-standard computers. In 1999, we

became