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Table of Contents
EMC CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
employees; fluctuating currency exchange rates; risks associated with litigation; and other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously
and from time to time in our filings with the SEC.
Q. Segment Information
Management has organized the business around our product and service offerings. We operate in the following segments: information storage products,
information storage and management services, EMC Software Group products and services, VMware products and services and other businesses. Our
management makes financial decisions and allocates resources based on revenues and gross profit achieved at the segment level. We do not allocate selling,
general and administrative expenses, research and development expenses or assets to each segment, as management does not use this information to measure
the performance of the operating segments.
Our information storage products segment includes systems revenues and platform-based storage software revenues. Our information storage and
management services segment includes hardware and software maintenance revenues and professional services revenues. Our EMC Software Group products
and services segment includes multi-platform based storage and management software, software maintenance services and professional services. Our VMware
products and services segment includes virtual infrastructure software, software maintenance services and professional services. Our other businesses segment
includes hardware maintenance revenues associated with AViiON servers.
In July 2004, we revised our segments and established the EMC Software Group products and services segment. The EMC Software Group products and
services segment includes the LEGATO and Documentum products and services revenues and cost of sales that were historically presented in separate
segments. The EMC Software Group products and services segment also includes EMC multi-platform license revenues and related software maintenance
revenues that were historically included in our information storage products and information storage and management services segments. Prior years' segment
information has been restated to conform to the current presentation. 95