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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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Post by photonbeam »

phpisthebest wrote: post #73
candiddevmike wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You act has if windows does not exist. My company and most of the companies I know run on windows server for line of business functions which are one prem when run on VMware Contaniers and Linux may run the cloud but at least in the US Microsoft owns on prem workload for every day business functions For every Linux server I manage there is about 30 or 40 Windows servers

What is the windows marketshare in servers? I haven’t encountered a single one in the last 15 years

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

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Post by InvertedRhodium »

candiddevmike wrote: post #65
mintplant wrote: post #63

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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

Disk performance can be a problem under WSL2, I ended up switching to Workstations after running into this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

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

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Post by [deleted] »

contrarian1234 wrote: post #14

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…

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

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Post by ajmurmann »

PlunderBunny wrote: post #51
ajmurmann wrote: post #36

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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.

Thank you! It's all good.

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

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Post by egberts1 »

kKR and Silver Lake (both private equity firms) created Avago.

Avago rolled up several companies including Broadcom and are 86% institution owned (Vanguard and Blackrock top 2)

Most of the layoff are marketing and sales as well as some engineering (it is a cut monthly cost and reap the revenue flow acquisition).

A slim chance of Avago/Broadcom utilizing its full enterprise SaaS hardware/software stack as I suspect it was just for "prospective show" in getting the acquisitee companies to be suckered in into the acquisition deal.

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

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Post by slt2021 »

alephnerd wrote: post #70
contrarian1234 wrote: post #14

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.

CA Tec, Symantec and now vmware - sounds like a combo of failed software companies which are no longer competitive and exclusively cater to boomer enterprise companies and close b2b deals with heavy bribes and quid pro quos

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

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Post by slt2021 »

vikramkr wrote: post #50
undersuit wrote: post #37

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When did Broadcom become a private equity firm? I thought they baked pies.

No they didn't become a private equity firm, a private equity firm's roll-up firm bought the old broadcom and took the acquisition target's name. They didn't change the ticker though it's why they're still AVGO on NASDAQ. Looks like KKR and silver lake were the private equity folks that created avago which started rolling all these firms including broadcom whose name it took

Silver Lake was also partner of Michael Dell in taking Dell Computer Corp private (while keeping VMware public) and they did all sort of financial machinations to screw VMWare shareholders

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

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Post by matt_heimer »

InvertedRhodium wrote: post #82
candiddevmike wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WSL2 works great for me, you should check it out

Disk performance can be a problem under WSL2, I ended up switching to Workstations after running into this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197

Seems to more of a Defender issue than a WSL one, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8995

After adding exclusions for the fsnotifier-wsl process and and both variants of the WSL distro path my disk performance was improved.

Adding the idea64.exe process also helped since I was trying to run IntelliJ against projects inside WSL.

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

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Post by phpisthebest »

photonbeam wrote: post #81
phpisthebest wrote: post #73

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You act has if windows does not exist. My company and most of the companies I know run on windows server for line of business functions which are one prem when run on VMware Contaniers and Linux may run the cloud but at least in the US Microsoft owns on prem workload for every day business functions For every Linux server I manage there is about 30 or 40 Windows servers

What is the windows marketshare in servers? I haven’t encountered a single one in the last 15 years

Then you only work in your niche market or don't work in system administration of any company of any size
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