Broadcom ditches most of VMware's Cloud Service Providers
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'How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?'

Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - ‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’::‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’

  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    10 months ago

    Step 1: Fail at trying to acquire Qualcomm

    Step 2: Successfully acquire CA Technologies, keeping all those mainframe companies on their mainframes for exorbitant fees

    Step 3:

    In 2019, Broadcom was announced the fifth best performing stock of the 2010s, with a total return of 1,956%.

    Step 4: Aquire VMware, so now you own the business of people trying to get out of mainframes

    Step 5: As you said, milk the huge enterprises with critical technology stuck in either mainframes or virtualization of their tech because they would rather pay the monthly fees than the upfront investment of moving to more modern systems