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Why VMware Paid $1.26B for 70 Software Engineers
Paul Maritz is leaving VMware for parent company EMC. But he went out with a bang: the $1.26 billion purchase of Nicira, a company that seeks to completely reinvent computer networking.
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One of the reasons Google and VMware have been so successful over the past decade, says Eric Brewer, is that both companies managed to snatch some of the world's brightest engineers from the big-name research labs that petered out in the late 1990s.
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