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Dell Terminates Agreement with VMware After Broadcom Acquisition

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18 pointsPaulWaldman15 comments

(Credit: @KingLancelot, who's link is somehow dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198414)

Look, what are the virt products out there that can be upped to VMWare levels? There's lots of stuff in open source.

This isn't a ground zero thing. There's probably 1,000 companies that use VMWare like capabilities, and you simply need to fund a group to bring FOSS to the level of VMWare.

Broadcom doing the acquisition gives you a bit of runway. You probably have a year or two before things get really bad. There's probably going to be VMWare engineers that hate the acquisition and will run to a foundation to make a competing/better FOSS equivalent. VirtualBox is a toy and owned by oracle. Well, it's open source too, right? Get something up that is Oracle-free and up to snuff.

Corporations are so stupid at IT. It really shows that basic IT management is an afterthought in B-School, when it is arguably more important than accounting and finance tricks in the long run.

At least the CEOs bragging about not even reading email have been dinosaured.

Can someone ELI5 what Broadcom hoped to do with VMware? And ideally non-snarkily. I mean, what was the idea behind tying a silicon company to a...I dunno, enterprise virtualization and networking company? I dont get it. And what is the thinking behind killing off the products? What remaining product are they trying to save?

Any takers?

First, VMWare isn't so much killing off the products, they are changing how you buy them.

VMWare has many different products, most of them very good but they don't have massive uptake.

When VMWare gets a new customer they might buy a handful of VMWares products, but not 50+.

So Broadcom has said, lets stop selling them individually, you can only buy big bundles on a subscription basis.

"how you buy them": nope, not even that.

I have no hopes that Broadcom will do anything beneficial with VMWare - only adjust product offerings to continue to suck as much revenue out of large companies who are slow to change things like virtualization technologies.

Broadcom bought Symantec a few years back and our Symantec Endpoint Security licenses expired - we ended up moving to another solution because we couldn't get ahold of anybody from Symantec to renew our license even after contacting them a month in advance - even our distributor couldn't get in touch with anyone from Symantec.

Broadcom sucks companies up and wrings every possible profit avenue dry and moves on to the next.

I know there is no confidence in Broadcom "doing anything right with an acquisition", but I would _LOVE_ to see the metrics that are pushing them to rathole this whole business/channel/ecosystem in such a hurry.

they are based on projections which are based on guesses estimates and probability

There are no metrics. Everybody is pushing now for SaaS. We don't have enough e-waste.

VMWare is ending their SaaS offerings.

Isn't paying every month for the right to use the software SaaS ? Or am i missing something ?

> Saas: "a method of software delivery and licensing in which software is accessed online via a subscription, rather than bought and installed on individual computers."

You purchase a licence on subscription but you have to host the software yourself, vmware won't host it for you anymore.

Called it, 61 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38483309

I wonder what incentive Dell would have to cancel this agreement? Did it limit their options for marketing competing products?

https://archive.is/PLYx3

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