Another VMware Founder Leaves

September 9th, 2008 by Julia Lim

I’m getting a little depressed for my upcoming trip to Vegas next week. Instead of a festive party atmosphere, I fear VMworld (and especially the Partner Day on Monday) is going to consist of a bunch of long faces on people wondering whether they should have gone to the Microsoft virtualization party instead.

Just a few months after CEO and founder Diane Greene was ousted, it comes as no surprise that her husband and co-founder, Mendel Rosenblum, has also resigned via a company wide message last night. Turns out he’s going back to Stanford to teach. What a lovely way to get out of the political mess VMware has become. Admit it, haven’t we all had a point where we get fed up with the latest work snafu and wondered, maybe I should go back to college and teach? I had a really good time in college… Kudos to Rosenblum for doing it and doing it in style.

And if you believe Tarry Singh, the company knew this was going to happen but waited until after registrations were closed for VMworld before making it official. Hmm.

From the New York Times, more on Greene’s firing and just what kind of atmosphere is forcing executives to leave VMware:

After Ms. Greene made a special presentation to VMware’s board, Mr. Tucci, who heads VMware’s parent company, EMC, pulled her aside, according to people familiar with the events, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal company decisions.

Inviting Mendel Rosenblum, Ms. Greene’s husband and the co-founder of VMware, into the room, Mr. Tucci told Ms. Greene she was fired, effective immediately. And he said the board wanted Mr. Rosenblum, VMware’s chief scientist, to take her seat on the board. Mr. Rosenblum declined the offer.

Honestly, what kind of a judgement call was made to first fire the man’s wife in front of him and then offer him her board seat? Has Tucci never seen an episode of Survivor?

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