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Hey proxmox, maybe get off your a$$ and put out a good multidatacenter management product so that I can transfer vms/manager resources between my clusters? It's one of the few features that keeps part of my operation on vmware instead of on your product.
But who will take my money to make minimal UI changes to VMWare Fusion year-over-year?
Next year: Tripplex, a new startup from ex-VMware employees that promises 2X the performance of any other virtualization platform and doesn't charge for "extra" features!
Could someone who understands the situation better explain .. what are the business synergies between Broadcom and VMware? Is there any business overlap at all..? Maybe buying and laying off is a profitable move, but I'd expect it to be done by investment firms that specialize in that. It'd be a bizarre financial gamble for a chip company. So there must be some angle where this makes sense for them and not for anyone…
It’s not that different from software focused private equity shops like Thoma Bravo. Buy a software company, starve it of resources, and price just below each clients BATNA. Revenue may decline over time, but costs fall faster and the buyer harvests that premium. There’s no synergies, just a willingness to be more ruthless and give fewer shits. Edit: clarity
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Examples?
Craftsman tools
Craftsman power tools are absolute joke and might as well have a fisher price logo on them.
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Examples?
Pyrex is notorious for this. The whole brand used to be about it being borosilicate glass, but they substituted it for standard glass which - surprise - shatters under thermal stress.
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Isn't that what private equity firms been doing forever?
When did Broadcom become a private equity firm? I thought they baked pies.