Includes the chief executive officer of the decision whether to purchase EMC VMware, a small software firm in California, which makes virtualization software. Among the factors to be considered in the case of patent pending WMare and Microsoft and integration problems associated with the solution of EMC, to spend $ 3 billion on the purchase of two other software firms based in California. In addition, there are questions about the devices transaction protection. "Hide
by Constance E. Bagley, Christopher J. Lombardi, Carin-Isabel Knoop Source: Harvard Business School 16 pages. Publication Date: March 29, 2006. Prod. #: 806153-PDF-ENG