>From today's NY Times (free subscription required): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/16/technology/16soft.html
"The EMC Corporation took a significant step to broaden its business yesterday with the purchase of VMware for $635 million in cash. "The purchase of VMware, analysts say, is part of the shift under way at EMC to become less dependent on data storage systems and to expand further into software as price pressures steadily erode the profitability of computer hardware."
