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Having already been thru the Symantec acquisition as soon as I heard Broadcom's name in connection to VMware I advised everyone I knew was using VMware to start

Having already been thru the Symantec acquisition as soon as I heard Broadcom's name in connection to VMware I advised everyone I knew was using VMware to start looking for alternatives. It's unclear to me how Broadcom can excel at apparent ineptitude so well. I assume the analysis I've read, that they want to shed all the legacy non-Fortune 100 Customers, is true.

baq 2y ago
> It's unclear to me how Broadcom can excel at apparent ineptitude so well. Reduce cost by 80% and raise prices 10x tends to do just that. > I assume the analysis I've read, that they want to shed all the legacy non-Fortune 100 Customers, is true. No other explanation makes any rational sense - no one will learn vmware on their free time now.
poincaredisk 2y ago
>Broadcom can excel at apparent ineptitude so well "Apparent" is the key word here. They don't care about all customers. They want to keep maybe 10% of the biggest enterprise customers, get rid of everyone else, raise prices 400%, and keep half of the profits while reducing costs to almost zero. Sure the product will die, but the acquisition will pay for itself multiple times over.
- candiddevmike 2y ago
  The sad part is VMwares tech stack for the most part is pretty rock solid, especially ESXi. It is/was rigorously tested across a variety of hardware platforms with extensive documentation on supported configurations. This is massive undertaking and their support matrix docs would make any QA nerd drool.
bluGill 2y ago
A fair number of Fortune 100 customers are also leaving as well, but you only find this out by talking to people in locations where it won't get back to anyone since the plans are confidential. But I suppose a couple very very large customers paying their prices is a lot of money.
alemanek 2y ago
Broadcom is just a Private Equity firm cosplaying as a tech company. This is just what they do. They don’t care if it dies as long as they are able to get every last drop of blood from their -victims- customers. The company I work for started migration planning right when the acquisition gained approval. We all knew what would happen and have a “no Broadcom” policy when it comes to software.

baq 2y ago

> It's unclear to me how Broadcom can excel at apparent ineptitude so well. Reduce cost by 80% and raise prices 10x tends to do just that. > I assume the analysis I've read, that they want to shed all the legacy non-Fortune 100 Customers, is true. No other explanation makes any rational sense - no one will learn vmware on their free time now.

poincaredisk 2y ago

>Broadcom can excel at apparent ineptitude so well "Apparent" is the key word here. They don't care about all customers. They want to keep maybe 10% of the biggest enterprise customers, get rid of everyone else, raise prices 400%, and keep half of the profits while reducing costs to almost zero. Sure the product will die, but the acquisition will pay for itself multiple times over.

candiddevmike 2y ago
The sad part is VMwares tech stack for the most part is pretty rock solid, especially ESXi. It is/was rigorously tested across a variety of hardware platforms with extensive documentation on supported configurations. This is massive undertaking and their support matrix docs would make any QA nerd drool.

bluGill 2y ago

A fair number of Fortune 100 customers are also leaving as well, but you only find this out by talking to people in locations where it won't get back to anyone since the plans are confidential. But I suppose a couple very very large customers paying their prices is a lot of money.

alemanek 2y ago

Broadcom is just a Private Equity firm cosplaying as a tech company. This is just what they do. They don’t care if it dies as long as they are able to get every last drop of blood from their -victims- customers. The company I work for started migration planning right when the acquisition gained approval. We all knew what would happen and have a “no Broadcom” policy when it comes to software.