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As a former employee, my outlook for VMW was already grim. Given Broadcom's history of acquisitions...this will probably not end particularly well for VMW as a
by sithadmin 4y ago
As a former employee, my outlook for VMW was already grim. Given Broadcom's history of acquisitions...this will probably not end particularly well for VMW as a company, and almost certainly will be bad for employees. Very glad I bailed out right after Pat Gelsinger did.
- ubermonkey 4y agoAre there any good examples of products acquired that then thrived or even really continued to do reasonably well? It seems more common for a product to be acquired and then languish as the people who care about it leave or are forced out. For example: the Primavera scheduling tool has mostly languished since being acquired by Oracle.
- soganess 4y agoDon't laugh... But beats headphones? Still reasonably popular and act as Apple's headphone market + supply chain testing platform.
- ubermonkey 4y agoI guess I meant to specify software. I can think of a few places where hardware products got traction under new ownership. The problem seems to be one that only afflicts software products.
- unmole 4y agoYouTube?
- fomine3 4y agoPowerPoint, Visio, After Effects, Android (but very early), Java, Red Hat (currently) Red Hat is on similar position.