VMW - BuZzzzing in Silicon Valley today!

Sounds like the luxury carmaker BMW, but this is the innovative virtualization software maker "vmware" making its debut in Wall street! It took off with good acceleration like it's luxury counterpart and shares are up by 80% already. For starters, virtualization is a software technology that makes it possible to run multiple operating systems (windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, etc.) on the same hardware, thereby increasing the utilization and versatility of hardware. For more details on virtualization, follow this wiki link or vmware's page. EMC, a software behemoth, bought it for a bargain in 2004 and vmware is already up 17 times the value it was bought for...