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Out of Left Field: Vmware Acquires Sliderocket

Out of Left Field: Vmware Acquires Sliderocket

By Zoli Erdos on April 26, 2011

Quick initial reaction: scratching head. Vmware recently shook up the Cloud Computing world with the launch of Cloud Foundry and I think most of us would have pegged them as an infrastructure company.  Then all of a sudden they buy Sliderocket, the great collaborative presentations company.  Why is this a big deal?  Probably not for […]

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, application software, Cloud Computing, cloudfoundry, google, Infrastructure, microsoft, salesforce.com, Sliderocket, VMware, Zimbra Mail | 1 Response

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