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cnnrduncan ( @cnnrduncan@beehaw.org ) 27•2 years agoYay gotta love more corporate consolidation
CuriousG ( @curiousgoo@beehaw.org ) 13•2 years agoOver here we consider Broadcom is where things go to die a slow death. There should be some form of rule if a company is not actively working on their products / retiring them then they need to make it freely accessible to the public.
Oliver Lowe ( @otl@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•2 years agoKind of. VMWare was bought by EMC back in 2004. EMC was acquired by Dell. Dell now sells VMWare to Broadcom. Not really consolidation, maybe more a spin-off this time 'round? I read this somewhere once: “Enterprise: A collective noun for a group of companies that spend lots of money on each other”.
HeartyBeast ( @HeartyBeast@kbin.social ) 5•2 years agoBroadcom’s stated goal of increasing VMware’s annual profits from $4.7 billion to $8.5 billion within three years. That sounds … ambitious. Sure you can make some savings by de-duplicating backend business operations, but it still sounds like R&D cuts or price hikes are on the way :(
Oliver Lowe ( @otl@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•2 years agoit still sounds like R&D cuts or price hikes are on the way
I mean, why not both? ;)
aard ( @aard@kyu.de ) 1•2 years agoBroadcom buying it just means it’ll be gone in a few years. They like buying obsolete technology for absurd amounts to see it die.
VMWare was great in the 90s and early 00s - but by now it is just legacy stuff some larger companies are too slow to move off of. If you kow what you’re doing using something else was mostly the better choice for about a decade already.
kosmoz ( @kosmoz@beehaw.org ) 1•2 years ago phillaholic ( @phillaholic@beehaw.org ) 1•2 years agoWhat are you doing on-prem that’s production ready? Last I checked Hyper-V isn’t as good.
I eat words ( @saint@group.lt ) English7•2 years agobye bye salt stack
mmsood99 ( @mmsood99@beehaw.org ) 4•2 years agoI guess I should move to docker and virtualbox.