US software innovator under pressure from Microsoft dumps founder.

The headline might sound tailor-made for Yahoo but Jerry Yang still has his job for now. Instead, fellow Silicon Valley resident Diane Greene has been pushed out of VMware, the software company she founded and took public with great fanfare in August. Back then, even as the rest of the world was starting to lose its nerve, VMware’s stock roared ahead, reaching a market capitalisation of $48bn. It is worth less than a third of that, its stock down 27 per cent at the news of Ms Greene’s ousting.