VMWare acquired online presentation service SlideRocket
April 27, 2011 | Author: Sandeep Sharma
Virtualization and Cloud market giant VMWare has acquired, perhaps, the best online presentation service SlideRocket. SlideRocket is known for being one of the first presentation tools that neglected the traditional format of business presentations, imposed by Microsoft PowerPoint and turned presentations into the WOW show. SlideRocket lets you create really impressive presentations using a variety of 3D effects and multimedia contents. In addition, SlideRocket provides collaboration tools, the large library with presentation themes and elements, and even the marketplace where you can find help in creating the presentation. Presentation created in SlideRocket can be showed on a laptop or tablet, published on the Web or demonstrate over the Internet using a conference call.
Why VMWare needs such a service? Hardly VMWare has a specific interest in the online presentation market. Just, apparently, the executives of VMWare and SlideRocket met at some event, drink some tea together and thought "why not?". Moreover, VMWare wants to provide the complete stack of business software: from the platform to business apps. Remember, last year VMWare acquired the popular collaboration system Zimbra.
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