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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 phpisthebest »

btmiller wrote: post #78
phpisthebest wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

How’s that market doing? Growing much?

Outside of web development and web-based servers Yes it's growing just fine

There's no doubt that Linux owns the web but for everything else there's a crap ton of legacy business software line of business apps databases file servers and tons of other things that run on Windows server

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

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Post by sudosysgen »

usefulcat wrote: post #79
daynthelife wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Seems like Linux laptops are generally not known for their great battery life. Would certainly be an issue for many laptop users.

It's a pain in the ass to set up sometimes, but you can pretty much always get better battery life in Linux nowadays. Even with hybrid graphics laptops.

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

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Post by upupupandaway »

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.

Anybody in charge of making purchase decisions for Enterprise SaaS and going for a full-Broadcom stack should be fired.

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

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Post by gnicholas »

solarkraft wrote: post #38
nextworddev wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We've also noticed that the top of our pyrex containers flake off shards of glass. We buy Anchor now, and it seems better.

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

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Post by iforgotpassword »

solarkraft wrote: post #38
nextworddev wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Afaik, There's actually Pyrex and PYREX. The latter being European and still making them properly.

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

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Post by anonuser123456 »

trynumber9 wrote: post #17
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…

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.

Most long term Broadcom people I know are pretty happy with Hock Tan’s leadership.

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

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Post by ragesh »

mintplant wrote: post #63
coconut08 wrote: post #62

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.

If you're on Windows and need a VM, why not use Hyper-V? I haven't touched anything from VMWare in decades, so I'm genuinely curious.

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

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Post by chx »

systemBuilder wrote: post #49

This is all Avago. They bought Broadcom, eviscerated America's #2 communications chip company, and renamed Avago Broadcom to hide their crimes against humanity ...

On the eve of the US' favorite war criminal finally dying could we please not inflate our words. Corporate raiding is not nice but crimes against humanity?
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