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Wow. The interesting part of this story is that VMWare was founded by a woman. Fascinating.

defen 18y ago
Even better - take a look at http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html. One of the co-founders, Edward Wang, "also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms."
- wallflower 18y ago
  Pretty exhilarating technical prose: "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988" http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html "The Internet Worm Incident Technical Report" http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/tech-reps/933.pdf http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/tech-reps/933.pdf
  - zandorg 18y ago
    As a nice aside, when I was at a (British) college in about 1995, years before I got on the internet, I read about Robert Morris and the internet worm, and now I'm posting on a forum created by a good friend of his! I find it interesting that I spent the first half of my life lusting after communications technology, and the second half getting to grips with it all and even contributing a little.
akd 18y ago
Best to call her the "co-founder." She's the non-technical head. The technical co-founder is her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, who created the first robust implementation of x86 virtualization. Quite impressive that these two have been together so long without the business partnership or marriage falling apart.
- astine 18y ago
  I suspect it bound them together actually. When a couple shares its labour it can become a important part of the relationship. Also, since they're husband and wife, I suspect that they combine their incomes, and so that partially deals with the money issue.
- bayareaguy 18y ago
  I'm pretty sure people who know her from her UCB days (she was peripherally involved with Stonebraker's research) would say it's a mistake to call Diane "non-technical".

defen 18y ago

Even better - take a look at http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html http://www.vmware.com/company/leadership.html. One of the co-founders, Edward Wang, "also helped to neutralize the infamous Internet Worm virus by discovering and describing one of its key mechanisms."

wallflower 18y ago
Pretty exhilarating technical prose: "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988" http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html "The Internet Worm Incident Technical Report" http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/tech-reps/933.pdf http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/tech-reps/933.pdf
- zandorg 18y ago
  As a nice aside, when I was at a (British) college in about 1995, years before I got on the internet, I read about Robert Morris and the internet worm, and now I'm posting on a forum created by a good friend of his! I find it interesting that I spent the first half of my life lusting after communications technology, and the second half getting to grips with it all and even contributing a little.

akd 18y ago

Best to call her the "co-founder." She's the non-technical head. The technical co-founder is her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, who created the first robust implementation of x86 virtualization. Quite impressive that these two have been together so long without the business partnership or marriage falling apart.

astine 18y ago
I suspect it bound them together actually. When a couple shares its labour it can become a important part of the relationship. Also, since they're husband and wife, I suspect that they combine their incomes, and so that partially deals with the money issue.
bayareaguy 18y ago
I'm pretty sure people who know her from her UCB days (she was peripherally involved with Stonebraker's research) would say it's a mistake to call Diane "non-technical".