Job losses follow Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of VMware.
  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Well, sounds like VMWare is dead now then.

    Hope those new ex-C suite billionaires enjoy the damage they’ve done to a previously reputable brand and product 🤷‍♂️ glad I went with libvirt for virtualization instead 4 years ago when rebuilding my homelab

    Edit: fix virtualization spelling error

    • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      VMware has been dying because of the Broadcom acquisition since last year. They basically looked at all the fortune 500s that used the tech and said “hey guys, our new business plan is to jack up the price 500% because your stack is dependent on us” and ever since there’s been a ton of positions for migration to cloud services and OpenStack.

    • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Its most likely the non-technical employees being laid off. The accountants, lawyers and sales. Broadcom already has those departments, they dont need duplicates. The developers will probably stay though. i’m sure vmware products will continue to be just as unreliable as they have always been…

      Its kinda suprising how bad virtualisation front end software is. I use libvirt at home as well, virt-manager locks up and crashes frequently, and throws obscure errors if i get the config wrong.
      VMware workstation at work will crash weekly, taking down the entire host machine. Esxi/vcenter also seems to require constant admin to keep it alive, and even still requires a lot of downtime.