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Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company(www.businessinsider.com)

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otl@lemmy.srcbeat.com
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Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

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billwashere@lemmy.world
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And Broadcom has a history of buying companies and squeezing every cent from them before they destroy them. I don’t expect VMWare to be around in 10 years.

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tagliatelle@lemmy.world
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VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.

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expr@programming.dev
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VMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.

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pezhore@lemmy.ml
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Well, now they’re down to ~18k if rumors are correct.

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flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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That’s over half? Gish, that’ll be absolutely brutal on the products and technologies… These aren’t calendar or email replacements, either - the core hypervisor and associated technologies are heinously complex. There’s just no way they can stay alive with that loss of I.P.

There goes the enterprise, I guess. I wonder if hyper-v will clean up in their absence?

I kinda hope proxmox or something FOSS will come through, but RE: the clustering and live migration stuff, I hate to think how well it works (I’m adjacent to this stuff, not working directly in it)

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