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The guy's name is "Hock Tan", it goes all the way to the top. Greedy billionaire trying to squeeze the entire on-prem datacenter industry. Every single one of
by luma 2y ago
The guy's name is "Hock Tan", it goes all the way to the top. Greedy billionaire trying to squeeze the entire on-prem datacenter industry. Every single one of my VMware customers is either in the process of migrating off or developing the plan to do so. At least one of them would be in Broadcom's list of 600 key accounts that Broadcom thought they could turn the screws on. They somehow seem to have forgotten that MS had just bought a chunk of that org and instead of paying VMware, they are now exiting a few dozen datacenters to move everything to the cloud. This org was highly cloud-resistant (for a handful of good reasons), but VMware forced their hand at exactly the wrong time.
I believe this course of action for VMware is going to be taught in business schools in the future.
- belter 2y agoThe story is even worst than this. You can find an interview from him on YouTube post acquisition of VMWare. A business reporter naively ask him what is his strategy for the acquisition. The answer just shows there was no strategy, just, and I am paraphrasing: "I spent all this money has to be for something"
- cryptonector 2y agoDo any business schools teach about business school fads and how often they don't work out?
- bigfatkitten 2y agoI hope so. My first lecture in project management subject about how the majority of IT projects (using the very methodologies taught in that class) fail.