"VMware's execs were at pains to point out that those numbers look even better when one considers that its Russian, Brazilian and Chinese business have sunk nastily due to economic conditions, and that it paid $75.5m to settle a price-fiddling dispute with the US government."
Really? If you had sold more stuff than you did, revenue (and maybe profits) would be higher than it is? Why, that's economic genius, that is!