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Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
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Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#232For anyone who doesn't know, VMware has doubled down in open source in the past 3 years, especially Kubernetes. I don't think Broadcom really understands how investment in open source works or for that matter cares. Half of my org of ~500 engineers works on upstream projects. Disclaimer: Current employee of VMware
Did they ever stop blatantly violating the GPL in ESX?
Taking driver code out of Linux and just running it inside the hypervisor has to be the most brazen violations possible.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
The VMWare market cap in 2016 was ~$32B, of course there's no objective way to answer your question definitely as yes or no but I'd say that VMWare was already at that point more than comfortably a more or less de-facto standard for virtualization.
Yeah but there was a big shift away from virtualization to cloud and micro services. As a former VMware admin I'm surprised VMware is doing as well as they are now. But maybe my view is just shaded by the bank I was working for that was moving away from it to AWS.
There isn’t really a big shift to cloud yet. Only 5% of all IT spend is on any cloud provider according to the CEO of Amazon and former CEO of AWS [1]
https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas...
[1] Andy Jassy is my skip^9 manager.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#234I have a very different view on this purchase, and I f my thesis is right, then it just might be the best move ever ( Michael Dell has certainly won again with this deal.) Here is my vie, VMware has become the OS of the private cloud. Sure Linux based, but from an enterprise perspective, VMWAre is closer to the HW than any other OS. Considering that Broadcom is a HW company, and that they are looking to fend off Qualcomm, Amd, and Intel as key competitors, should they move to build ARM or RISK-V based server for the enterprise, they could be at a mejor advantage on those CPU architecture. Just a thought from over the pond, but they could buy Ampere and be in that market very well positioned to take in the Enterprise space end to end, they would only need storage if you don’t consider VSAN as a valid solution in that space. Tim will tell.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#235For anyone who doesn't know, VMware has doubled down in open source in the past 3 years, especially Kubernetes. I don't think Broadcom really understands how investment in open source works or for that matter cares. Half of my org of ~500 engineers works on upstream projects. Disclaimer: Current employee of VMware
Did they ever stop blatantly violating the GPL in ESX? Taking driver code out of Linux and just running it inside the hypervisor has to be the most brazen violations possible.
> Did they ever stop blatantly violating the GPL in ESX?
If you mean, did they remove the vmkLinux layer from their product? Yes, they did, back in 2019 soon after they won the lawsuit on procedural grounds (the court ruled the person who brought the suit didn't have standing, and it was upheld on appeal).
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#236I wonder if this will have knock-on repercussions into the JVM stack, since VMWare owns Pivotal, and Pivotal create Spring.
Yeah this has me a little concerned, but only a little at this time. The only reason I'm not feeling any major anxiety yet is due to the ubiquity of Spring libraries/frameworks/products. They're everywhere used by thousands of companies, so it would be unlikely that this acquisition would have any dramatic changes for Spring. Perhaps a change in ownership or governance will occur, but hopefully there will be little or no impact.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#237I have a very different view on this purchase, and I f my thesis is right, then it just might be the best move ever ( Michael Dell has certainly won again with this deal.) Here is my vie, VMware has become the OS of the private cloud. Sure Linux based, but from an enterprise perspective, VMWAre is closer to the HW than any other OS. Considering that Broadcom is a HW company, and that they are looking to fend off Qual…
It might be the hypervisor and related ecosystem of private cloud today, but I wouldn’t bet $61B on VMWare against the entire field (xen/kvm in Type 1, and all the container solutions) for 2027.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#238For anyone who doesn't know, VMware has doubled down in open source in the past 3 years, especially Kubernetes. I don't think Broadcom really understands how investment in open source works or for that matter cares. Half of my org of ~500 engineers works on upstream projects. Disclaimer: Current employee of VMware
I would be mildly interested in a 5 minute pitch of what VMware is offering these days, it's been 15 years since I've touched any of their products and the way they were doing things then really seems like it is becoming increasingly irrelevant so what have they been doing instead? It looks like my vague guess of "the same but also on top of cloud providers" seems to be about right given a quick glance at their websi…
vmware enterprise footprint and business still seems to chug along. most of the world markets lag behind hyperscale technology progress.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Actually, the parent comment is on to something. "Brand name" enterprise software is a buoy that certain types of careerists handcuff themselves to Or maybe, just maybe, really big corporations that make software solutions are often really big because their solutions are, if not feature-wise the absolute best, by far the most stable and reliable? If one were to buy your argument, that would be like saying that busi…
Gmail is a market leader only because it is good enough (and at the start it was even better than competition) and because it was free - and still is for some cases. Can't comment on Google Apps, never used them. Otherwise, I'm not sure I would put Google in the mix with Oracle / MS and others. They are firmly non-enterprise, in that it is notoriously difficult to get any support from them, even if you are paying (th…
> Can't comment on Google Apps, never used them.
> They are firmly non-enterprise
So you acknowledge you don't really have knowledge of the core enterprise suite Google sells to enterprises, but at the same time you're certain they're non-enterprise?
Google Workspace (the new-ish name for Google Apps) is absolutely enterprise. They definitely have enterprise support contracts, and the few times I've had issues while having a support contract they have been easy to work with.
Re: Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only hope they let VMware operate independently and continue growing like they've done in the past decade.
One thing that I always gave Dell/EMC credit for was that they at least outwardly seemed to have left VMware free to their own thing. As opposed to a lot of their other acquisitions that they bastardized in this rush to sell enterprises on everything private cloud. We'll see Broadcom ends up taking the same route.
Quite agree, Dell/EMC treated VMware as independent.