Earlier this year Diane Green, co-founder and CEO of VMware since 1998, was outed by the board at VMware. Ever since this unexpected change at the top level of VMware, there have been worries/rumors of her husband, Mendel Rosenblum (VMware co-founder and Chief Scientist), leaving the company as well. Things were quiet for a while, but now virtualization.info is reporting that Rosenblum resigned. Not only is Rosenblum resigning, but Paul Chan, Vice President of Product Development is slated to leave VMware next month as well after resigning in August. VMware’s stock price has taken a beating after all this news of top brass leaving/resigning. Some speculate that one of the reasons for all of this shake-up is the recent release of a new version of Hyper-V announced by Microsoft that looks like it will directly compete with ESXi.

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