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VMWare’s Diane Greene staying put
With one high-profile female Silicon Valley CEO swapping her executive office for a more political challenge, another — VMWare co-founder Diane Greene — says she’s sticking around.
I have built VMware. I am really excited about where we are going to be able to take this company and I am quite engaged in doing that. I am here for the foreseeable future.
I feel like we have been through several stages in VMware’s existence. Products-wise we are in a position now where every CIO appreciates what we do and knows that they can trust us, and puts us in a position where we have a pretty exciting future.
However, after running the show at VMWare since founding it a decade ago, its hard to avoid the comparison between Green and Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay.
