But who will take my money to make minimal UI changes to VMWare Fusion year-over-year?
Or make sure Workstation 15.5 doesn't work in Windows 11?
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
#72Could 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…
None. It’s a slumlord scenario. Buy it and milk as much cash as possible. VMWare has a decade to coast into oblivion.
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#73Hey proxmox, maybe get off your a$$ and put out a good multidatacenter management product so that I can transfer vms/manager resources between my clusters? It's one of the few features that keeps part of my operation on vmware instead of on your product.
In the age of containers, what are you seeing net new VM provisioning for?
You act has if windows does not exist. My company and most of the companies I know run on windows server for line of business functions which are one prem when run on VMware
Contaniers and Linux may run the cloud but at least in the US Microsoft owns on prem workload for every day business functions
For every Linux server I manage there is about 30 or 40 Windows servers
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#74Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
#75I continue to find it vexing that these articles don’t include whether this is news to the employees involved. The transitional offers were, I have heard, pretty good.
This is not news to employees. Most U.S. employees knew if they were continuing with Broadcom before the deal even closed.
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#76Any news on the locations of the cuts? It looks like VMware is mostly in the Bay Area.
“The jobs are located at VMware’s Palo Alto headquarters, which will remain open.”
Broadcom is moving their official HQ to the former VMware campus in Palo Alto. It's actually a pretty large and amazing campus.
Re: Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
#77Hey proxmox, maybe get off your a$$ 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?
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 application. But if something is already 10-20 years old, that isn't going to change overnight. I think it would take something drastic for us to get off VMs completely, even if I'm looking 5-10 years out.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the age of containers, what are you seeing net new VM provisioning for?
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
How’s that market doing? Growing much?
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#79Earlier 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.
Is there a reason not to just install Linux (and dual boot into windows if you need it for some things)? I suppose if it’s a work laptop they might not be too pleased with this.
Seems like Linux laptops are generally not known for their great battery life. Would certainly be an issue for many laptop users.
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#80any news on what happens to the saltstack side of the vmware operation?