But the real selling point for Maritz was when RumbleMonkey tested his idea at PAX with a pro gamer…

PROS: Bates has a good mix of enterprise and consumer experience. He worked at SAP before taking ov…

"This speaks both to the value that customers place on our Pivotal Labs team not only do work for t…

Tons of companies are springing up that promise to help enterprises make sense of the flood of data…

And the change in leadership was odd, too. Maritz and Gelsinger were sort of changing seats. Gelsin…

It's an important transition for VMware, Gelsinger said. The bulk of the company's revenue comes fr…

Maritz says Pivotal is part of a third "massive" shift in why companies use computers. The first sh…

The company isn't profitable - it lost $163 million last fiscal year, compared with a $232 million …

Still, when thinking about the possibility of going public, even in this lukewarm market for tech c…

EMC owns about 80% of VMware, a publicly traded enterprise software company valued at about $40 bil…

The board installed former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz as CEO. Maritz led VMware from 2008 to 2012 w…

The company has recently become of interest activist investor, Paul Singer and his Elliott Manageme…

"As a long-time industry veteran and co-founder and CEO of VMWare, Diane needs no introduction. Clo…

Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jordan, Chris Dixon Grace Garey, Netta Marshall, Chase Adam, Je…

Basically, Pivotal sells a set of software tools and consulting services to help even the largest, …

Sherlund sums up his exasperation with Microsoft over the last five years by saying, "It is hard to…

Similarly, Grove and his successors at Intel found it extremely difficult to move beyond what had l…

Pivotal is perhaps best known for shepherding the Cloud Foundry open source platform-as-a-service, …

Kara Swisher at Re/Code says Gates is highly involved in the CEO search. She quotes a source as say…

With a bright idea and a credit card, hundreds of startups and small businesses have launched and s…