Summit Notebook
Exclusive outtakes from industry leaders
VMWare’s orator: Tod Nielsen
Tod Nielsen certainly has the gift of the gab. VMWare’s chief operating officer, who was once videotaped by a reporter in the hope that he would turn out someday to be “famous” (and a royalty generator), waxed lyrical at the Reuters Global Technology Summit about everything from British CIOs and magic crystals to PCs .
Here’s a sampling of his colorfully phrased — though occasionally puzzling — views.
On VMWare’s Q1 performance:
“We should walk down Wall Street and get the tickertape parade.”
On how the company has to keep up relationships with every hardware vendor out there:
“Part of my job is to be Switzerland and be great friends with everybody.”
