Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that develops products geared towards software developers and project managers. Atlassian is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. On February 14, 2014, Atlassian president Jay Simons announced the opening of an Austin office that will eventually employ 600 people. Atlassian was founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. In 2006, Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurs of the Year.
VMware, Inc. is a US software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services, VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, while its enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, are bare-metal hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. In 1998, VMware was founded by Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. Greene and Rosenblum, who are married, first met while at the University of California, Berkeley.
