Question: How much did VMware pay to acquire the Atlanta-based provider of enterprise mobility management software?

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Verivo: Verivo Software Inc. is an enterprise mobility software company, with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.  Verivo’s enterprise mobility platforms allow users to develop, secure and govern mobile applications across multiple devices.

Enterproid: Enterproid is an enterprise mobility management software company that helps business customers manage employee-owned smartphones and tablets, a trend known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).  Enterproid is best known for its dual-persona platform called Divide, which separates iOS and Android devices into two personas for work and play.

Visage Mobile: Visage Mobile is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides mobility management solutions for enterprises.  Their product, MobilityCentral, is intended to simplify enterprise mobility management, as a web-based application.

MobileIron: MobileIron Inc. is an American software company specializing in solutions for mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management (EMM).

AppTec: AppTec GmbH is a privately held company providing Enterprise Mobility Management software managing applications, configuration, and security of smartphones and tablets.  AppTec has its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.  The company also has offices in London and Freiburg.  AppTec is used by over 3,800 companies worldwide.

AirWatch: VMware AirWatch is an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) software and standalone management systems for content, applications and email.

Amtel: Amtel, Inc. is a telecommunications management company based in Santa Clara, California providing cloud based mobile device security and expense management solutions.  The company’s primary focus is on providing integrated enterprise mobility management secure messaging and telecom expense management (TEM) and [Secure messaging] software as a service for enterprises.  Amtel’s SaaS solution for managing smart mobile devices allows organizations to manage mobile device security, mobile apps and fixed telecom services from a single Web based console.

John Marshall (entrepreneur): John D. Marshall is an American entrepreneur and inventor.  He is the co-founder and former president and CEO of AirWatch, which VMware acquired for $1.54 billion in 2014.  He currently serves as senior vice president and general manager at AirWatch by VMware, which surpassed $200 million in 2014 bookings and 15,000 customers as of December 31, 2014.

42Gears Mobility Systems: 42Gears Mobility Systems is an Indian software company providing Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution.

Knowledge management software: Knowledge management software (KM software) is a subset of Enterprise content management software, which contains a range of software that specializes in the way information is collected, stored and/or accessed.  The concept of knowledge management is based on a range of practices used by an individual, a business, or a large corporation to identify, create, represent and redistribute information for a range of purposes.  Software that enables an information practice or range of practices at any part of the processes of information management can be deemed to be called information management software.  A subset of information management software that emphasizes an approach to build knowledge out of information that is managed or contained is often called knowledge management software.

Supporting paragraphs: John Marshall (entrepreneur) AirWatch
Answer: $1.54 billion