Epicor Software Corporation is a business software company based in Austin, TX and was founded in 1972. The company markets business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. Epicor provides enterprise resource planning such as Epicor ERP Epicor Retail Suite Epicor HCM and Prophet 21, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and human capital management software to business customers in both Software as a Service and On-Premises deployment models.
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.