{"id":4733,"date":"2007-02-07T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2007\/02\/07\/vmware-ipo\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T23:55:47","slug":"vmware-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/vmware-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"
The hand writing was on the wall<\/a>, and EMC finally did it.<\/p>\n EMC announced its intention to sell approximately 10% of VMware via an initial public offering (IPO) of newly issued VMware stock. EMC will retain ownership of the remaining shares of VMware, and has no intention of spinning out or otherwise divesting this ownership interest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As today’s eWeek article<\/a> suggests, EMC shareholders\u00a0[I’m not one of them]\u00a0were looking for greater returns. EMC’s CEO explains more of the thinking with Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are some of my initial thoughts on this news:<\/p>\n What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n Patrick O’Rourke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The hand writing was on the wall, and EMC finally did it. EMC announced its intention to sell approximately 10% of VMware via an initial public offering (IPO) of newly issued VMware stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":20683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msxcm_post_with_no_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[14],"product":[],"content-type":[],"solution":[],"coauthors":[926],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-virtualization","review-flag-1593580427-982","review-flag-1593580409-206","review-flag-1593580770-929","review-flag-1-1593580431-223","review-flag-2-1593580436-936","review-flag-3-1593580441-66","review-flag-5-1593580451-829","review-flag-never-1593580313-803"],"yoast_head":"\n\n