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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 temeritatis »

ragesh wrote: post #99
mintplant wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

VMWare has the best virtual graphics performance IMHO. Hyper-V or Virtualbox is just painful in comparison. Until graphic vendors support partitioning GPU resources to allow sharing the main GPU to a VM using passthrough, it will likely remain one of the best options for many.

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

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Post by mdhb »

phpisthebest wrote: post #114
mdhb wrote: post #109

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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…

You kind of started off by saying that Google trends data only represents web servers which is entirely incorrect and has no relationship with how Google trends works or what that chart represents.

So I don’t really know how else to respond to this… it also relies on a secret magic number that nobody can see that shows the real truth so it’s kind of a silly argument.

If windows server usage is growing surely there must be a lot of compelling evidence to back it up?

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

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Post by The_Colonel »

basedkissinger wrote: post #33

What’s the situation with Avago products? I use some of their fiber optic signal receivers/transmitters (200um-400um jacket I believe?) but now they’re Broadcommed. Give me a quick rundown.

"broadcommed"... Today's Broadcom is renamed Avago. It was Avago which bought Broadcom and adopted its name. It's quite possible something like that will happen with the VMware brand.

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

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Post by rokkitmensch »

chx wrote: post #100
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?

Eviscerating one of the last bastions of chipmaking know-how en nosotros estados unidos is not really something one can under-sell.

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

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Post by slt2021 »

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.

old VMWare used to cater to boomer enterprise companies and thats how they sold their products.

These new owners however are not interested in catering to customers' needs - they just want to milk license fees like Oracle and outsource as much product development and customer support overseas as possible.

with predictable outcomes obviously

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Post by snapplebobapple »

smartbit wrote: post #118
candiddevmike wrote: post #68

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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/re…

Its this. Domain controller, dns, nessus scanner to start at every office site. Next up legacy csttom windows apps. Maybe i could add a lot of complexity and throw those in kubevirt but there isnt a massive benefit when my work load looks like so very many other medium sized non software businesses:3-10 vms per site across 3-20 sites handles our entire workload when combined with o365 for business

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

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Post by alephnerd »

slt2021 wrote: post #125
alephnerd wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

old VMWare used to cater to boomer enterprise companies and thats how they sold their products. These new owners however are not interested in catering to customers' needs - they just want to milk license fees like Oracle and outsource as much product development and customer support overseas as possible. with predictable outcomes obviously

VMWare had a plenty of relatively low value sales motions such as channel sales, Mid-Market, SLED, and APAC.

By only concentrating on direct sales and renewals for F100, you will still have around 80% of the same sales revenue as before, but at a lower operational cost.

This is the same operating model that ZScaler, Crowdstrike, and PANW use.

Sometimes, that dollar on the ground simply isn't worth picking.

And ime, there's a reason why most VCs, PEs, and Sales Leadership are strongly opposed to companies and startups that target a Channel Sales GTM strategy.

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

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Post by anakaine »

alephnerd wrote: post #127
slt2021 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old VMWare used to cater to boomer enterprise companies and thats how they sold their products. These new owners however are not interested in catering to customers' needs - they just want to milk license fees like Oracle and outsource as much product development and customer support overseas as possible. with predictable outcomes obviously

VMWare had a plenty of relatively low value sales motions such as channel sales, Mid-Market, SLED, and APAC. By only concentrating on direct sales and renewals for F100, you will still have around 80% of the same sales revenue as before, but at a lower operational cost. This is the same operating model that ZScaler, Crowdstrike, and PANW use. Sometimes, that dollar on the ground simply isn't worth picking. And ime, t…

Channel sales GTM strategy? Mind at least expanding GTM?
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