Strange days indeed
Though VMware shares have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange for only about two months, the company's market capitalization is already $38.8 billion.
That makes it the fifth-most-valuable business software company after Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Germany's SAP AG and Adobe Systems Inc.
Google Inc. and IBM Corp. are not included because the technology industry considers Google a consumer search company and IBM a diversified consulting company, although they create software for corporate clients.
