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This is literally what Broadcom does - it's just the first time most of the HN crowd has been subjected to it. See: bluecoat acquisition, Symantec acquisition.
by tw04 3y ago
This is literally what Broadcom does - it's just the first time most of the HN crowd has been subjected to it. See: bluecoat acquisition, Symantec acquisition.
Drop any pretense that you want to service any customer outside of the fortune 500. Then increase prices by several hundred percent because you're so imbedded in those fortune 500s, even if they want to run from you it'll take them 5 years and you can make all your money back in that window.
- smackeyacky 3y agoAh, the good old Computer Associates strategy alive and well in 2024
- tw04 3y agoPerhaps you already know this, others probably do not, but Broadcom acquired CA (computer associates) in 2016. So yes, literally the Computer Associates Strategy. "This IBM mainframe racket seems amazing, how can we replicate it???" Note: you're all going to be complaining about Redhat in the next 5 years, because IBM knows how to get blood from a stone.
- taskforcegemini 3y agothey already killed CentOS which caused plenty of complaints