Pivotal was spun out. It&#x27;s a privately owned company with EMC, VMware, and GE as large investors. OSS isn&#x27;t going away at Pivotal any time soon, it&#x27;s core to a number of business models.<p>As an aside, Pivotal also heads up Cloud Foundry, which is an open source PaaS that runs on top of every IaaS.  We have been good at selling it to large companies (I work at Pivotal). Everyone in this thread is wondering how EMC breaks into cloud computing, but no is mentioning Cloud Foundry. That&#x27;s currently the tip of the spear.