VMware appoints a former IBM exec as its new President for the Greater China Region -- adding another suit into its relaxed corporate culture. VMware announced the appointment of Mr. David Sung (Song Jiayu) to the position of president of VMware’s Greater China region.The virtualization giant has long been known for its technical savvy, innovations and relaxed corporate culture. After the removal of Diane Greene as CEO, the company replaced her with a former Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz. Many questioned how this would affect the corporate culture at VMware. In keeping with that questioning, the company now names an ex-IBM executive to its China region. Prior to joining VMware, Sung served as general manager of IBM’s key large client department where he was responsible for corporate management as well as product and service distribution. Sung brings with him an extensive 26 year history at IBM with management experience across Asia and the US. “I’m joining VMware at a very exciting time when virtualization is gaining significant traction in China,” said Sung. “Organizations that are looking to simplify their datacenter infrastructure, reduce their overall IT costs, and get ahead of power and space issues, are turning to VMware – the virtualization industry leader. We are bringing significant and positive change to their organizations. Together with VMware’s 900 strong partner community in Greater China, we are focused on enhancing virtualization skills, implementation and delivery services for our customers. We are bringing virtualization solutions and benefits to organizations of every size and across all sectors.”Adding Sung to the VMware team does bring a lot of expertise to the company in that region — and it is a fast growing region that could prove valuable to VMware.So while ex-Microsoft and ex-IBM executives continue to flow into the company ranks, I seriously doubt the corporate culture will dramatically change over night. However with that said, VMware also isn’t the same company that it was only a few short months ago either. It will be interesting to see what is said and heard at VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas. VMware stock closed down 97 cents to 36.98. Software Development