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Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

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Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#51

Any news on the locations of the cuts? It looks like VMware is mostly in the Bay Area.

This article is only about California, but people were laid off everywhere. Source: I'm one of them and am in Oregon.

Sorry to hear that - hope you land on your feet.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is so frustrating - Pyrex isn't itself anymore. Is there any brand that still sells kitchen glassware made like Pyrex used to be?

The company that licensed Pyrex in Japan still makes and sells the real deal as Iwaki

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#53

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.

I proxmox

I like turtles.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#54

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…

Broadcom/Avago is more of a corporate raiding company than anything else at this point. They took the name of one of their victims to hide it a bit.

So like Hannibal Lechter

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#55

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.

Proxmox already has clusters that allows you to live migrate VMs between nodes.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is so frustrating - Pyrex isn't itself anymore. Is there any brand that still sells kitchen glassware made like Pyrex used to be?

Oxo is borosilicate glass.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same as: acquire renown company making a solid product, substitute product by something from China at a fraction of quality/cost, still charge the same for the next couple years until word has spread.

Examples?

Soon to be moog

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#58

Any news on the locations of the cuts? It looks like VMware is mostly in the Bay Area.

1/2 of all Australian employees are getting made redundant, and it looks like 100% of new Zealand employees are out. Several office locations in Oceania are gone.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#59

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…

Broadcom/Avago is more of a corporate raiding company than anything else at this point. They took the name of one of their victims to hide it a bit.

This feels like a fuckup. The acquisition should have been blocked for the same reason Nov 2017 takeover of Qualcomm was blocked.

Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

#60
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The theory is "we already have a finance, S&M, admin etc" so we will dump the other one wot we just bought. That will instantly fix up the PandL and BS and the share price will simply head north because we have dumped duplicated cost sinks. Loverly Obviously, we won't bother to compare functions and functionality now 'coz ours will be the better one, 'cos its ours. Broadcom seem to be a firm of breakers, shakers and…

As far back as May they were already figuring out which teams would eat each other up.
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