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VMWare Smashes $1 billion Quarter - 24 Jan 12

Virtualisation behemoth VMWare has surpassed financial predictions to smash the $1 billion barrier in the fourth quarter of 2011. The scale of VMware's virtual server revenue stream now rivals IBM's Power Systems and System z mainframe physical server businesses (individually) and, according the The Register, is roughly the same size as the systems business at Oracle, and larger than the Itanium-based server business at HP.

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