VMware

VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California.[3] VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.^{[self-published source]}[4]

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VMware, Inc.

Entrance to campus headquarters, Palo Alto, California
Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: VMW (Class A) Russell 1000 component
Industry	Cloud computing Virtualization Computer software
Founded	February 10, 1998; 24 years ago (1998-02-10) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founders	Mendel Rosenblum Diane Greene Scott Devine Ellen Wang Edouard Bugnion
Headquarters	Stanford Research Park Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Key people	Michael Dell (chairman) Rangarajan Raghuram (CEO)
Products	VMware vSphere VMware ESXi VMware Fusion VMware Player VMware ThinApp VMware View VMware Infrastructure
Services	Virtualization software, SaaS, Cloud
Revenue	US$12.85 billion (2022)
Operating income	US$2.39 billion (2022)
Net income	US$1.82 billion (2022)
Total assets	US$28.68 billion (2022)
Total equity	US$−876 million (2022)
Owner	Michael Dell (40%)[1]
Number of employees	37,500 (2022)
Website	vmware.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of January 28, 2022[update][2]

VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. VMware ESXi, its enterprise software hypervisor, is an operating system[5] that runs on server hardware.[6]

In May 2022, Broadcom Inc. announced an agreement to acquire VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $61 billion.[7]