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Diane Greene

08/05/17

@ Y Combinator

In the late 90s, during the dot-com era, we faced skepticism about our software that allowed users to run multiple operating systems on one machine.

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VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference

@ Y Combinator

VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference

08/05/17

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Steve Ballmer

06/02/25

@ Acquired

At the time of my 'developers' speech, we were facing competition from Linux and needed to reinforce our platform with third-party support.

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Bipul Sinha

06/06/25

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

In the late '90s and early 2000s, Oracle made a courageous decision to transition from Solaris to Linux as its core platform, enabling the development of large-scale distributed systems.

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Steve Ballmer

06/02/25

@ Acquired

From '92 to '98, we experienced a liftoff primarily driven by Windows and applications, not enterprise solutions.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

To launch our product, we positioned it as a Linux tool, allowing users to run Microsoft Office applications in a Linux environment without needing multiple computers or dual booting.

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Jensen Huang

06/24/11

@ Stanford Online

In 1993, we believed that the PC would evolve to run 3D graphics programs, allowing users to explore new worlds and play games.

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Matthew Berman Cast

05/22/25

@ Matthew Berman

The transition to new computing architectures is ongoing, and we are in the early stages of blending different types of software for future applications.

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Steve Ballmer

06/02/25

@ Acquired

By the mid to late 80s, we still felt overshadowed by IBM, which was the dominant force in the computing industry at that time.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

We aimed to create a desktop product that would allow users to run Windows on Linux and vice versa, without requiring any changes from operating system or chipset vendors.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

I co-founded VMware in 1998, creating the virtualization industry, which allows multiple operating systems to run on a single computer or across computers.