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VMware Fusion will be spun out of Broadcom
- stephenr 3y agoI don't know if the article title changed, but the title used here is slightly misleading - this isn't just about Fusion (the macOS desktop hypervisor). The article title is `Broadcom to 'divest' VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units`. It'll be interesting to see what happens here, particularly given that the concept of "use the same cross platform low level VMware hypervisor" is a moot point on Macs going forward.
- wmf 3y agoI expect Fusion is the only part of "end-user computing" that people here care about.
- karmakaze 3y agoYeah, I read "VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units" and it only made me wonder what they're talking about. The rest of the article says why which is the real story rather than which bits--that naturally falls out from that reasoning.
- phendrenad2 3y agoSo what did Broadcom actually get out of acquiring VMWare?
- _8j50 3y agoA ton of esxi and other enterprise/server side sku's. A lot of companies still have onprem servers ran by a vmware product plus azure as a vmware offering (maybe other cloud's as well).
- anemoiac 3y agoDoesn't very sound encouraging for the casual user of their desktop software or ESXi...
- wmf 3y agoBroadcom definitely doesn't care about Fusion so selling it to another company could actually be good.
- wmf 3y agoUpdate: Insiders on Twitter are reporting that Fusion is not part of end-user computing and thus probably won't be spun off.