An eWeek.com interview with VMware CEO Dianne Greene provides an overview of the company's history, current projects, and goals. VMWare pioneered commercial x86 virtualization back in the 90s, which in turn lead to the increasing virtualization of the datacenter. Mrs. Greene also touches on the changes VMWare's technology brings to security, cloud computing, and the development and deployment of software.

Apparently, the uncertain state of the economy is not harming VMWare's adoption rates:
"It's an interesting trend. We do see people accelerating their deployment of virtualization because it lets them do more with less. If they can free up IT dollars in their IT budget, that's a good thing. Not only does VMware Infrastructure let them do server consolidation very effectively and very reliably, but they don't need as many people to manage the system because of the management products and the automation products. [They also] get high availability and load balancing, and they really optimize around the power."

Mrs. Greene also comments on the upcoming Hyper-V product from Microsoft:
"They are coming in with a point product—with a 1.0 hypervisor. VMware is a new software infrastructure—it's an architecture, and we are transforming how software is developed and delivered with a broad suite of products, a broad suite of alliances and a broad suite of APIs that are integrated with the industry. It is apples and oranges. "

Read the entire interview here.