{"id":418,"date":"2011-05-31T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-05-31T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T23:49:20","slug":"could-i-have-an-acquisition-with-that-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/could-i-have-an-acquisition-with-that-please\/","title":{"rendered":"could I have an acquisition with that, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I said that VMware is out to hire half the Valley. \u00a0On the user experience team, we&#8217;ve hired four or five new people in just the six months that I&#8217;ve been here. \u00a0VMware currently has a zillion <a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.vmware.com\/\">job openings<\/a>, and now we&#8217;re about to\u00a0<a title=\"Palo Alto-based VMware plans huge expansion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_18140349\">triple the size of our main campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t quite right. \u00a0We&#8217;re actually out to either hire or acquire half the Valley. \u00a0Just look at the past few weeks. \u00a0We&#8217;ve acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sliderocket.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/sliderocket-launches-into-the-vmware-cloud-2\/\">SlideRocket<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/console\/2011\/05\/the-new-way-to-work-part-2.html\">Socialcast<\/a>, plus <a title=\"VMware to Acquire Shavlik Technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/company\/news\/releases\/vmw-shavlik-051611.html\">Shavlik<\/a>. \u00a0That&#8217;s three companies in six weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I said that VMware is out to hire half the Valley. \u00a0On the user experience team, we&#8217;ve hired four or five new people in just the six months that I&#8217;ve been here. \u00a0VMware currently has a zillion job openings, and now we&#8217;re about to\u00a0triple the size of our main campus. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/could-i-have-an-acquisition-with-that-please\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">could I have an acquisition with that, please?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}