I wonder if this will have knock-on repercussions into the JVM stack, since VMWare owns Pivotal, and Pivotal create Spring.
Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
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Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for a second, imagine a company that isn't a software company, but needs software to run its business. Think manufacturing, logistics, shipping, construction, food (industrial scale egg production, for example) etc. There's a lot of companies like that out there...in fact it's almost all of them. Those companies run all their boring, essential software (accounting, ERPs, etc.) on VMWare, Oracle, Azure, etc. Sinc…
Sounds like a tax for stupidity and laziness, like AWS. This is how I feel about most B2B companies and software. I wonder how a recession and the end of free funny money will change that whole sector?
> Sounds like a tax for stupidity and laziness
I pay a barber to cut my hair. Sure, I could learn how to cut my own hair, but there's a good chance I'll spend a lot of time and still mess it up.
I pay a mechanic to fix my car for serious repair. Sure, I could learn how to replace a transmission, but there's a good chance I'll spend a lot of time and still mess it up.
If these (and the endless examples of paying professionals) are a tax for stupidity and laziness, then everyone is lazy and stupid. If you're not a software company, there's a good chance it's worth it to save the time to pay someone to set it up for you. Also, if Joe's Fish Market wants a POS system and needs a server for it and he decides to set it up himself, if he gets it up and running, what are the chances it'll stay up to day and not have a firewall issue? Probably pretty low compared to if a professional did it.
Joe wants to focus on selling fish. That's where he's a pro. I don't know anything about fish, but I could set up a server for him. We all have our own skills, and it's often worth while to leverage other people's skills, because they'll do it faster, better, and it will likely end up cheaper after time and security are taken into consideration.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#133Enterprise software is such a mystery to me. I can't imagine any company ran by To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with Linux directly
It's a big plus in the corporate world to be able to outsource support. It's worth it for companies to pay VMWare, Microsoft, etc. larges sums of money for support contracts so they have someone to call when things break. While Microsoft sells Windows Server, they also try really hard to add on support contracts with it. Paying several thousand dollars a year for a support contract is probably cheaper than paying sal…
Sometimes for me it seems like they pay to "get the façade of talking directly to people in suits" rather than having to deal with technies.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
We can but asia won’t. We can stop and let Asian tech giants eat us alive.
I may have missed something but hasn't China recently demonstrated that it absolutely is not willing to let its tech giants get too big and powerful. Take a look at what has happened with BABA.
China doesn't care about the size of companies. Alibaba ran into political problems because they wanted to compete in an industry with established players with strong relations to regional governments and different parts of the CCP.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#135Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#136Oh no https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/uxucz4/if_vm...
Linked by Reddit poster: https://kicksec.io/vmware-too-big-to-fail/
From the article:
> My hope is that Michael Dell vetos this merger, from my accounts of Michael and the people I know who are employed by Dell, Michael is a great leader and a good human being and that is the most important thing, not profit at any cost.
I don't know if the author is serious. This deal has Michael Dell financial engineering written all over it. He's not going to veto anything. Dell is all about enriching himself with moves like this rather organically grow a company.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#137Enterprise software is such a mystery to me. I can't imagine any company ran by To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with Linux directly
Just for a second, imagine a company that isn't a software company, but needs software to run its business. Think manufacturing, logistics, shipping, construction, food (industrial scale egg production, for example) etc. There's a lot of companies like that out there...in fact it's almost all of them. Those companies run all their boring, essential software (accounting, ERPs, etc.) on VMWare, Oracle, Azure, etc. Sinc…
> Why should enterprises deal with Linux directly?
Not just Linux but IT in general. It may have to be about security; my impression is that at least some of the widespread successful attacks in recent years might have been prevented if non IT companies had their own IT department, servers and in house security teams. Relying on an external provider is cheap and comfortable, until the day a single vulnerability screws all its customers data in a single day.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for a second, imagine a company that isn't a software company, but needs software to run its business. Think manufacturing, logistics, shipping, construction, food (industrial scale egg production, for example) etc. There's a lot of companies like that out there...in fact it's almost all of them. Those companies run all their boring, essential software (accounting, ERPs, etc.) on VMWare, Oracle, Azure, etc. Sinc…
Sounds like a tax for stupidity and laziness, like AWS. This is how I feel about most B2B companies and software. I wonder how a recession and the end of free funny money will change that whole sector?
Would you consider a chef who buys produce from the market as opposed to buying a farm and growing it on their own "stupid and lazy"?
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#139Michael Dell will get $24bn! from this acquisition...It's fascinating how he turned around a struggling PC company (Dell Inc) into a financial engineering machine that made him tens of billions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/04/18/how-wall...
But did he know EMC's ownership of VMWare in 2016 was going to turn out to be such a stellar cloud performer, or was that just IP portfolio luck?
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a tax for stupidity and laziness, like AWS. This is how I feel about most B2B companies and software. I wonder how a recession and the end of free funny money will change that whole sector?
> Sounds like a tax for stupidity and laziness I pay a barber to cut my hair. Sure, I could learn how to cut my own hair, but there's a good chance I'll spend a lot of time and still mess it up. I pay a mechanic to fix my car for serious repair. Sure, I could learn how to replace a transmission, but there's a good chance I'll spend a lot of time and still mess it up. If these (and the endless examples of paying profe…
> I pay a barber to cut my hair.
Meaningless analogy. Here some other meaningless analogies:
Why would anyone ever own a frying pan? Not only do you need to rent a stove, you also need to hire a chef to cook with frying pan, you need a station with chefs that prep ingredients and so on. Just go to a restaurant.
You pay a mechanic to fix your car? Why would anyone ever own a car when you can rent a car whenever you need one.
You pay a barber to cut your hair? Why not just wear a wig!
And so on ...