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by zimbu668 3014 days ago
> How did Pivotal get involved? Were they hired by VMWare, and then they took it over?

Pivotal Labs got bought by EMC in 2012, who also owned VMWare. A year or so later EMC spun out Pivotal Labs combined with VMWare and some other companies(Green Plum) in a new company under the Pivotal name.