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Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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Mergers always mean layoffs.
Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.
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.
VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.
VMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.
Well, now they're down to ~18k if rumors are correct.
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)