Computer chip and software maker Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles and plans to complete its $69 billion acquisition of cloud technology company VMware on Wednesday.
  • navigatron@beehaw.org
    19·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 years ago

    69 … Nice.

    I hope this doesn’t end badly for VMware. I use VMware exclusively in a professional setting, and partially in a personal setting. With everything I’ve seen it’s by far the most stable (Qemu seems to be close to bare metal in ideal conditions, but can get a little quirky at times to say the least) and beats out virtualbox in both performance and stability.

    If it’s mostly in cash & stocks hopefully from my layman’s view they’re buying a valuable asset and not going to enshitify it for a quick buck when the debt bill comes in with an uncertain economy.

  • foxfell@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    I have read on SlashDot, they already have fired a lot of engineers, so it may only have come worse in future.

  • darkfiremp3@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 years ago

    I have already seen my and other companies say things like “we were going to role vSAN but after our recent license talks we are not”