VMware Fusion will be spun out of Broadcom

theregister.com

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I don't know if the article title changed, but the title used here is slightly misleading - this isn't just about Fusion (the macOS desktop hypervisor).

The article title is `Broadcom to 'divest' VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units`.

It'll be interesting to see what happens here, particularly given that the concept of "use the same cross platform low level VMware hypervisor" is a moot point on Macs going forward.

I expect Fusion is the only part of "end-user computing" that people here care about.

Yeah, I read "VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units" and it only made me wonder what they're talking about. The rest of the article says why which is the real story rather than which bits--that naturally falls out from that reasoning.

Update: Insiders on Twitter are reporting that Fusion is not part of end-user computing and thus probably won't be spun off.

Doesn't very sound encouraging for the casual user of their desktop software or ESXi...

Broadcom definitely doesn't care about Fusion so selling it to another company could actually be good.

So what did Broadcom actually get out of acquiring VMWare?

A ton of esxi and other enterprise/server side sku's. A lot of companies still have onprem servers ran by a vmware product plus azure as a vmware offering (maybe other cloud's as well).

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