• navigatron@beehaw.org
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    This will go about as well as broadcom’s acquisition of Symantec (not well).

    If you can get rid of vmware, you will have to, and if you can’t, you’ll ship buckets of benjamins to broadcom and in return they might keep your company alive.

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      I would say it probably won’t go any worse than being bought by EMC, then by Dell, but at the time they were a darling mostly left alone. Now they’re kind of a dying market.

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        It’s not a dying market, everyone still relies on virtualization. But it is a saturated market, no more 20% growth years left, with plenty of cloud and open source competitors. Our financial systems hate a steady hand, and will tear apart VMWare instead.