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KKR to Acquire Broadcom's (VMware) End-User Computing Division

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"[VMware's End-User Computing Division's] flagship products include Horizon, a leading desktop and application Virtualization platform, and Workspace ONE, a marquee Unified Endpoint Management (“UEM”) platform for the enterprise, along with common platform services of data, identity and workflows."

VMware Horizon? Ugh, that's concerning.

(Horizon is VMware's thin-client / zero-client platform.)

I never heard of KKR, but I definitely wouldn’t trust Broadcom to do that software any justice. Maybe this might be better?

For some history on KKR look up the book Barbarians at the Gate. They're one of the original and largest private equity firms.

working link https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d...

I’m trying (and failing) to understand the scope of this “End-User Computing Division.” Is this tools like VMware Horizon (i.e., their thin-client solution), or VMware Workstation/Fusion, or something else?

AIUI mostly the thin-client side. It's my (third-party) understanding that workstation/player/fusion are surprisingly difficult to break out because they borrow strongly from ESXi.

"News Id not Found", looks like this got pulled?

Here’s the KKR link - https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d...

VMWare (Broadcom) link - https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2024/02/broadcoms-euc-division-...

Does dang get notified if you say his name?

I believe not

I've noticed that HN seems to have something that changes URLs based on where their bot gets redirected to. I have also noticed this with YouTube videos where HN will remove the time parameter if I want to submit a link to a specific part of a video.

Can confirm I originally submitted: https://media.kkr.com/news-details/?news_id=48701629-ae4d-4d...

thanks, yep HN must have stripped the query param thinking it was an advertising ID or something

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