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VMware expects to meet its goal of 42% to 45% revenue growth this year, though new CEO Paul Maritz warns it may be the lower end of the range. He also expects the company's desktop virtualization management system, VMware View 3.0, to come out this quarter with "significant deliveries" next year. ... Quite something to be a legend at 38. The Computer History Museum honored Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week, along with Jean Bartik, one of the first ENIAC computer programmers, and Bob Metcalfe, who pioneered Ethernet local area networking. Torvalds described working alone on Linux for six months before accepting help from other developers. "It actually took awhile before I learned to trust people," he said. ... Apple CEO Steve Jobs on why his company won't lower computer prices in an economic slowdown: Apple's loyal customers will wait for a recovery rather than buy a cheaper rival product.