Craig’s Musings

EMC Corporation completed its acquisition of VMware today. This is the third in a recent string of software acquisitions by EMC as follows:

• 1/9/2004 – VMware (announced 12/15/2003; open letter)
• 12/19/2003 – Documentum (announced 10/14/2003; open letter)
• 10/21/2003 – LEGATO Systems (announced 7/8/2003; open letter)

I’ve been a satisfied VMware user for awhile now; so, I’m looking forward to collaborating with my new corporate peers.

Prior to its acquisition by EMC, Documentum completed a number of software acquisitions of its own:

• 12/10/2002 – eRoom (Extended Enterprise Collaboration software; announced 10/3/2002)
• 12/4/2002 – TrueArc (Records Management software; announced 11/4/2002)
• 1/24/2002 – Boxcar (Content Aggregation and Distribution software)
• 12/3/2001 – Bulldog (Digital Asset Management software)

Following its acquisition by EMC, Documentum continued its acquisitions:

• 3/16/2004 – askOnce (enterprise content integration)

Craig
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