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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 danmur »

upupupandaway wrote: post #93
alephnerd wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Instead of being promoted and moving on, claiming it as a victory evermore

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

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Post by anonuser123456 »

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 ...

They liberated us. Before Avago they were throwing good money after bad.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

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…

It doesn't really seem like Broadcom has an overall plan. We used a load balancer, briefly owned by Broadcom, but for some reason they didn't want it and sold it to PulseSecure. Had they kept it they could have build something where they would provide an easy load balancer integration for VMware, but I don't believe that how Broadcom thinks.

Better Broadcom network drivers for VMware?

There's a lot of potential synergies, like tailoring network card to VMware, adapting their APM to enable for VMs easily. Storage solution optimized for VMware. I just don't believe that they think in those lines, or maybe they do when they want to justify their purchases, but then never follow up.

Overall I think it's weird that VMware has such a hard time existing as an independent company. They are pretty dominant in their field which very little competition. Most companies I've dealt with run VMware for at least part of their business. I see this as being just as much a failure of VMware management to run a successful near-monopoly.

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

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Post by sitzkrieg »

sudosysgen wrote: post #92
usefulcat wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

i have never got better battery life on linux with every power savibg tweak under the sun, on system76 laptops. its still awful

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

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Post by alephnerd »

slt2021 wrote: post #86
alephnerd wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The whole point of a business is to make money. That's it. By catering to "boomer enterprise companies" also known as FORTUNE 1000 you can make billions a quarter.

Jesus HNers are dense.

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

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Post by alephnerd »

mrweasel wrote: post #103
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…

It doesn't really seem like Broadcom has an overall plan. We used a load balancer, briefly owned by Broadcom, but for some reason they didn't want it and sold it to PulseSecure. Had they kept it they could have build something where they would provide an easy load balancer integration for VMware, but I don't believe that how Broadcom thinks. Better Broadcom network drivers for VMware? There's a lot of potential syner…

> maybe they do when they want to justify their purchases

It's this. They are very strategic about where they invest money. If they can get around a 20x RoI they will build it. If they can't they'll shut downt the division.

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

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Post by mdhb »

phpisthebest wrote: post #91
btmiller wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You don’t need to just make things up and then scold others like they were idiots who are stuck in a bubble.

Growth is non existent and has actually gone down every year since 2008 according to Google Trends data.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&tz=0&date=...

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

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Post by techwizard81 »

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

You must work in a very niche market, in my last 25 years, 100% of the company I worked for were primarly based on windows servers. Yes there are linux servers and the number is increasing, but still represents a very small percentage compared to windows server.
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