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EU commission clears acquisition of VMware by Broadcom(ec.europa.eu)

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cnnrduncan@beehaw.org
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Yay gotta love more corporate consolidation

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CuriousGoo@beehaw.org
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Over 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.

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Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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Kind 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”.

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HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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Broadcom’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 :(

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Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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it still sounds like R&D cuts or price hikes are on the way

I mean, why not both? ;)

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I eat words@group.lt
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bye bye salt stack

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mmsood99@beehaw.org
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I guess I should move to docker and virtualbox.

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