A Software Maker Goes Up Against Microsoft (Published 2007)Diane Greene, president of VMware, and Mendel Rosenblum, a founder.Credit...Thor Swift for The New York Times VMware, a young Silicon Valley company, is the early leader in a fast-growing market for what is called virtual-machine software. And that puts it on a collision course with Microsoft, the industry’s Goliath. A virtual machine essentially mimics a computer so that several copies of an oper
