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

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Post by techwizard81 »

mdhb wrote: post #109
phpisthebest wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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=...

First time I hear somebody saying that Windows servers being used more in the enterprise is a made up statement LOL

Google search trend isn't directly linked to marketshare

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

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Post by moondev »

alfalfasprout wrote: post #12
wmf wrote: post #8

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AFAIK Fusion development already moved to India.

It shows.

> It shows.

Mission accomplished

      Fusion now supports running Arm virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/13.0/rn/vmware-fusi...

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

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Post by mdhb »

techwizard81 wrote: post #111
mdhb wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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=...

First time I hear somebody saying that Windows servers being used more in the enterprise is a made up statement LOL Google search trend isn't directly linked to marketshare

I said it wasn’t growing and hasn’t been for over a decade and a half. If you have stats proving otherwise feel free to provide.

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

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Post by phpisthebest »

mdhb wrote: post #109
phpisthebest wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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=...

All of those trends are based on WEB SERVERS, as is every other online metric you will find.

I can not provide you an Install count stat, i am sure someone deep inside Microsoft knows that number, but windows servers are used in non-public facing workloads. Not on the Internet.

that deviation happened years ago.

However since we are talking about vmWare which is also using mostly in non-internet facing workloads then it is relevant.

I have some 20 years of experience as a system administrator on internal IT Teams, I don't support cloud apps, I do not develop cloud apps, i dont do DevOps, the only "cloud" companies like mine use is Office 365. I work exclusive on supporting internal workloads for companies in the Manufacturing / Industrial market segments

For industries like mine windows is the dominate server platform, most of our software vendors require it, often also requiring SQL Server. Hell I have multimillion dollar pieces of equipment that come in with Windows 10 has system they are using to control them.

Out side of the Web, linux is a minor player

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

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Post by _w1tm »

al_borland wrote: post #77
candiddevmike wrote: post #68

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

Where I'm at, it's applications that teams don't want to spend time moving to containers, or they claim the app runs better on dedicated VMs, and in other cases they just aren't ready to move yet and still need to add capacity until that time comes. Even teams that are utilizing containers heavily in some areas are still building hundreds of VMs for other parts of the app. Containers first might be fine for a net new…

Check out KubeVirt, you can mix containers with VMs.

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

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Post by philipov »

alephnerd wrote: post #107
slt2021 wrote: post #86

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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.

No, the point of a business is to create good products. Making money is just the mechanism we've chosen to encourage people to do that, but the justification for capitalism has always been that it creates "the best products for the lowest cost". Only caring about making money, to the detriment of creating the best products for the lowest cost, is a perversion of the system, and we don't need to tolerate it.

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

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Post by smartbit »

candiddevmike wrote: post #68
snapplebobapple wrote: post #31

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?

Interesting question. Before anything else, we need some basic services like dns, mail, git, etc. How do you suggest deploying these in a on-prem/selfhosted environment? I assume not on Kubernetes or the like as that could cause chick-and-egg issues?

Each service should be high-available also. For dns & smtp quite possible, and gitlab seems to support high availability too https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reference_architec...

Have you even seen a complete container-based infrastructure on top of bare-metal without any VM?

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

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Post by smokefoot »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #46
smokefoot wrote: post #19

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It’s not that different from software focused private equity shops like Thoma Bravo. Buy a software company, starve it of resources, and price just below each clients BATNA. Revenue may decline over time, but costs fall faster and the buyer harvests that premium. There’s no synergies, just a willingness to be more ruthless and give fewer shits. Edit: clarity

you forgot the classic move of "release the legal team to sue anyone doing anything vaguely similar to your patents"

Yes! And aggressively enforce your software license agreements with frequent audits.

Anything to make money other than innovating and actually building better products.

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

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Post by fuy »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #104
sudosysgen wrote: post #92

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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

a bit off topic, but do you know of any good resources on tuning battery life and CPU fan control for system76 laptop?
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