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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

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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…

More like fire expensive developers and hire cheaper somewhere else

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

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as a person who really likes workstation i imagine that i'm pretty screwed now.

Yep, I do my development almost entirely within a Linux VM on a Windows laptop. Workstation already feels kinda neglected (lack of support for distinguishing between P and E cores is one recent unresolved pain point), so all of this is really putting me on edge.

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

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as a person who really likes workstation i imagine that i'm pretty screwed now.

Yep, I do my development almost entirely within a Linux VM on a Windows laptop. Workstation already feels kinda neglected (lack of support for distinguishing between P and E cores is one recent unresolved pain point), so all of this is really putting me on edge.

WSL2 works great for me, you should check it out

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

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as a person who really likes workstation i imagine that i'm pretty screwed now.

Yep, I do my development almost entirely within a Linux VM on a Windows laptop. Workstation already feels kinda neglected (lack of support for distinguishing between P and E cores is one recent unresolved pain point), so all of this is really putting me on edge.

Is there a reason not to just install Linux (and dual boot into windows if you need it for some things)?

I suppose if it’s a work laptop they might not be too pleased with this.

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

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post #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.

Yes I am aware. That uses corosync and is fine if you are running a few servers in one location with large data pipes between them. That is only part of what is needed to compete with vmware (and xcpng/xen orchestra for that matter). The missing piece is the management software to tie multiple clusters together across different physical locations for administration and (ideally live) vm migration.

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

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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.

In the age of containers, what are you seeing net new VM provisioning for?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Examples?

Craftsman tools

the replacement ratchet I got from craftsman (lowes) to replace my small (1/4?) drive for free is much much better than the one i bought originally in 2010.

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

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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…

50% of Broadcom's revenue comes from Enterprise SaaS. They already have an APM play (CA Technologies), EPP play (Symantec Enterprise), and Data Security play (Symantec Enterprise). By acquiring VMWare, they can add a Private Cloud and Network Security play.

All these plays converge into allowing a company to buy their entire Enterprise Infra stack from Broadcom.

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