Paul Maritz, who ran development at Microsoft before quitting in 2000, has assembled a team that includes some former Microsoft engineers at his new firm, PI Corp.

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The business will be run by Paul Maritz, the former VMware CEO, who recently moved over to EMC where he serves as chief strategy officer.

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In part, this reflects a market reality: quoting Paul Maritz of VMWare, Shuttleworth predicted that by 2014 personal computers will make up only 20% of the devices regularly accessing the Internet.

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VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) had hardly finished announcing that its chief executive, Diane Greene, was stepping down when the company pulled references to the co-founder off its Web site and put up the bio of its incoming chief executive, Paul Maritz.

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