As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 9, 2004

                                              Registration No. 333-____________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                                    FORM S-8

                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                                 EMC CORPORATION
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             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)


                                  Massachusetts
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         (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

                                   04-2680009
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                     (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)


                176 South Street, Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748
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                    (Address of Principal Executive Offices)


                          VMware, Inc. 1998 Stock Plan
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                            (Full Title of the Plans)


                              Paul T. Dacier, Esq.
                    Senior Vice President and General Counsel
                                 EMC Corporation
                                176 South Street
                         Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748
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                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)


                                 (508) 435-1000
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          (Telephone Number, Including Area Code for Agent for Service)


                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


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                                                     Proposed Maximum      Proposed             Amount of
Title of Securities to be           Amount to be     Offering Price     Maximum Aggregate      Registration
       Registered                  Registered (1)     Per Share (2)     Offering Price (2)       Fee (2)
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VMware, Inc. 1998 Stock Plan        6,304,448             $1.59           $10,024,072              $810.95
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(1)   This Registration Statement covers an aggregate of 6,304,448 shares of
      the Registrant's common stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common
      Stock"), that may be issued pursuant to awards granted under the equity
      plans identified above (collectively, the "Plans"). Also registered
      hereunder are such additional shares of Common Stock, presently
      undeterminable, as may be necessary to satisfy the antidilution
      provisions of each of the Plans to which this Registration Statement
      relates.

(2)   Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee
      pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the prices at which the options
      to acquire Common Stock may be exercised.




                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

         The Registrant incorporates by reference the following documents filed
with the Commission:

         (a)  the Registrant's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
              ended December 31, 2002;

         (b)  the Registrant's  Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter
              ended June 30, 2003 and the quarter  ended  September  30, 2003,
              respectively;

         (c)  the  Registrant's  Current  Reports  on Form 8-K filed  with the
              Commission on January 23, 2003,  April 8, 2003,  April 16, 2003,
              July 8, 2003, July 16, 2003, October 14, 2003, October 21, 2003,
              December 16, 2003 and December 19, 2003 respectively; and

         (d)  the  description  of the Common  Stock which is contained in the
              Registrant's  Registration  Statement  on Form 8-A  filed by the
              Registrant  under Section 12 of the  Securities  Exchange Act of
              1934 on March 4, 1988, including any amendments or reports filed
              for the purpose of updating such description.

         In addition, all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates
that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities
then remaining unsold under this Registration Statement, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part
hereof from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained
herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superceded for purposes of this
Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in
any other subsequently filed document which also incorporated or is deemed to
be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supercedes such earlier
statement. Any statement so modified or superceded shall not be deemed, except
as so modified or superceded, to constitute part of this Registration
Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities.

         Not applicable.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

         The legality of the shares of Common Stock being registered pursuant
to this Registration Statement will be passed upon for the Registrant by Paul
T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Registrant. Mr.
Dacier holds options to purchase Common Stock and owns shares of Common Stock.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Directors and Officers

         Section 67 of Chapter 156B of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts authorizes a Massachusetts corporation to indemnify any
director, officer, employee or other agent of the corporation, any person who
serves at its request as a director, officer, employee or other agent of
another organization, or any person who serves at its request in any capacity
with respect to any employee benefit plan, to whatever extent specified in or
authorized by (i) the articles of organization, (ii) a by-law adopted by the
stockholders or (iii) a vote adopted by the holders of a majority of the
shares of stock entitled to vote on the election of directors.

         The Registrant's Restated Articles of Organization include a provision
that eliminates the personal liability of each of its directors for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director to the extent provided by
applicable law, notwithstanding any provision of law imposing such liability,
except for liability, to the extent required by Section 13(b)(1 1/2) or any
successor provision of the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law, (a) for any
breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Registrant or its stockholders,
(b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional
misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under sections 61 or 62 of the
Massachusetts Business Corporation Law, or (d) for any transaction from which
the director derived an improper personal benefit.

         In addition, the Registrant's Amended and Restated By-laws provide
that (a) the Registrant shall, to the extent legally permissible, indemnify
each of its directors and officers (including persons who act at its request
as directors, officers or trustees of another organization or in any capacity
with respect to any employee benefit plan) against all liabilities and
expenses, except with respect to any matter as to which such director or
officer shall have been adjudicated in any proceeding not to have acted in
good faith in the reasonable belief that such individual's action was in the
best interests of the Registrant or, to the extent that such matter relates to
service with respect to any employee benefit plan, in the best interests of
the participants or beneficiaries of such employee benefit plan; (b) the
Registrant is authorized to pay expenses, including counsel fees, from time to
time reasonably incurred by any director or officer in connection with the
defense or disposition of any such action, suit or other proceeding in advance
of the final disposition thereof upon receipt of an undertaking by such
director or officer to repay to the Registrant the amounts so paid by the
Registrant if it is ultimately determined that indemnification for such
expenses is not authorized under the Amended and Restated Bylaws; (c) the
right of indemnification under the Amended and Restated By-laws shall not be
exclusive of or affect any other rights to which any director or officer may
be entitled by contract or otherwise under law.

         The Registrant has entered into indemnification agreements with its
directors and executive officers providing for the indemnification of such
director or executive officer, as applicable, to the extent legally
permissible and the payment of expenses, including counsel fees reasonably
incurred in connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or
other proceeding in which such individual may be involved by reason of such
individual being or having been a director or officer of the Registrant.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration Claimed.

         Not applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits.

         The following exhibits are filed as part of or incorporated by
reference into this Registration Statement:

         4.1      VMware, Inc. 1998 Stock Plan.

         5.1      Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General
                  Counsel to the Registrant, as to the legality of the
                  securities being registered.

         23.1     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
                  Accountants.

         23.2     Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General
                  Counsel to the Registrant (contained in the opinion filed as
                  Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).

         24.1     Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this
                  Registration Statement).

Item 9.  Undertakings

The Registrant hereby undertakes:

         (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
              made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement
              to include any material information with respect to the plan of
              distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
              statement or any material change to such information in the
              registration statement;

         (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
              Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall
              be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
              securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
              at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
              offering thereof;

         (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
              amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
              unsold at the termination of the offering;

         (4)  That, for purposes of determining any liability under the
              Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual
              report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
              Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each
              filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
              Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is
              incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be
              deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
              securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
              at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide
              offering thereof; and

         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of
the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a
claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by
the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action,
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person
in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless
in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of such
issue.




                                  SIGNATURES

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of
Hopkinton, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 9th day of January, 2004.

                                         EMC CORPORATION



                                         By: /s/ Paul T. Dacier
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                                             Paul T. Dacier
                                             Senior Vice President and
                                             General Counsel



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each individual whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints William J. Teuber, Jr. and Paul T.
Dacier, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and
in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any
and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration
statement and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their or his substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power
of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

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         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.




Signature                                       Title                                      Date
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 /s/ Michael C. Ruettgers                   Chairman of the Board                        January 9, 2004
---------------------------------           of Directors
MICHAEL C. RUETTGERS



/s/ Joseph M. Tucci
---------------------------------           President, Chief Executive Officer           January 9, 2004
JOSEPH  M. TUCCI                            and Director
                                            (Principal Executive Officer)


/s/ William J. Teuber, Jr.
---------------------------------           Executive Vice President and                 January 9, 2004
WILLIAM J. TEUBER, JR.                      Chief Financial Officer
                                            (Principal Financial Officer)


/s/ Mark A. Link                            Vice President and Chief                     January 9, 2004
---------------------------------           Accounting Officer
MARK A. LINK                                (Principal Accounting Officer)


/s/ Michael J. Cronin                       Director                                     January 9, 2004
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MICHAEL J. CRONIN


 /s/ Gail Deegan                            Director                                     January 9, 2004
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GAIL DEEGAN


/s/ John R. Egan                            Director                                     January 9, 2004
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JOHN R. EGAN


/s/ W. Paul Fitzgerald                      Director                                     January 9, 2004
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W. PAUL FITZGERALD


/s/ Windle B. Priem                         Director                                     January 9, 2004
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 WINDLE B. PRIEM


/s/ David N. Strohm                         Director                                     January 9, 2004
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DAVID N. STROHM


  /s/ Alfred M. Zeien                       Director                                     January 9, 2004
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ALFRED M. ZEIEN





             [SIGNATURE PAGE TO REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8]




                                  EXHIBIT INDEX


   4.1      VMware, Inc. 1998 Stock Plan.

   5.1      Opinion of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General
            Counsel to the Registrant, as to the legality of the
            securities being registered.

   23.1     Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent
            Accountants.

   23.2     Consent of Paul T. Dacier, Senior Vice President and General
            Counsel to the Registrant (contained in the opinion filed as
            Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).

   24.1     Power of Attorney (included on the signature pages to this
            Registration Statement).