VMware second quarter results

VMware, an independent subsidiary of EMC with separate sales, marketing and
R&D, grew total Q2 revenues 73% year-over-year to $157 million, its highest
growth rate in five quarters.  VMware now has an annualized run rate of $630
million.

VMware's exceptional growth reflects customers' increasing adoption and
standardization on VMware Infrastructure and the success of its growing
virtual appliance/software life cycle and enterprise desktop businesses.
VMware Infrastructure 3, which shipped in the last month of the quarter,
added significant new hypervisor platform functionality as well as a suite of
groundbreaking new virtualization-leveraging services including distributed
resource management, high availability, and online agent-less backup. 

VMware launched the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance during the
quarter, with more than 20 hardware, software and service providers joining
the initiative focused on hosted and mobile enterprise desktop solutions. 

VMware continued its focus on industry standards during the quarter,
releasing the virtual machine disk format (VMDK) for free and without
license.

EMC's Q2, 2006 earnings press release can be found at:
http://www.emc.com/news/emc_releases/showRelease.jsp?id=4....  Q1,
2006 revenue was $131 million, 2005 revenues were $387 million, 2004 revenues
were $218 million and 2003 revenues were just under $100 million.

Best Regards,
Amber Rowland
Group Manager, VMware 
Corporate Communications
arowland@vmware.com
650-842-9519