WHEN EMC CORP. Chief Executive Joseph M. Tucci revealed in late 2002 that he planned to overhaul the down-on-its-luck data storage leader by acquiring software companies, most analysts were skeptical. After all, EMC was known for one thing only: building expensive cabinets packed with disk drives. And Tucci himself was a cipher. He had spent chunks of his career working for two of tech's mediocrities, Unisys Corp. and Wang Global Inc. So in 2003, Wall Streeters scratched their heads when Tucci bought Documentum, a document management company, and VMware, a pioneer in the arcane software that manages computers. They asked: What does this have to do with storage?
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机译:当EMC CORP。首席执行官约瑟夫·图奇(Joseph M. Tucci)在2002年底透露,他计划通过收购软件公司来彻底改变运气不佳的数据存储领导者时,大多数分析师对此表示怀疑。毕竟,EMC仅因一件事而闻名:建造装有磁盘驱动器的昂贵机柜。图奇本人就是密码。他的职业生涯大部分时间都在为Unisys Corp.和Wang Global Inc.这两家技术平庸的公司工作。因此,在2003年,当Tucci收购了Documentum公司(文档管理公司)和VMware(神秘软件的先驱)时,华尔街人ers之以鼻。管理计算机。他们问:这与存储有什么关系?
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