SEBU engineer here - wondering what will happen to my BU post-Hockcom acquisition? Lots seem to think our SD-WAN is the perfect complement to Symantec, but the news about HCL partnering with VMware for RAN, WAN, etc, makes us scared that Hock will sell us to HCL.
If that happens, what will it mean for the bu?
Clearly sebu is not integrated or top level is not interested. I think it would definite have cut or sell off. Heads of marketing and engineering already left early and it only confirms the theory!
Sadly I agree. I am in the EUC BU and it feels like VMware was able to push the two BU's to innovate together so much so that the EUC BU went elsewhere for mobile threat defense. Everytime I have asked though what was the big announcement for CB or Velo nobody has an answer.
Wouldn’t want to be you BU
It's going to be renamed to See Ya BU.
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No one knows
First, SEBU has resisted integration with the rest of vmware since the acquisition of VeloCloud. That's not working out well, as running your own services, customer success, and sales team may be good for innovation or independence, but bad for the ability to gain efficiencies (which is what BC is after). The political wrestling between SEBU and EUCBU over this trainwreck of "anywhere workspace" is exhibit A. Never has the company blown so much on marketing ($8M) and so little on actual product and engineering work (less than $1M) - and the result was more than predictable.
Anyways - if any BU is sold off (which means most likely becoming part of another PE-funded equity (look at the Citrix-Tibco deal as an example), it does not mean that this BU would run independently. No current GM is going to be a CEO. The pain will just be prolonged and continue elsewhere. A merger, cost cutting, everybody worrying about their jobs, attrition, etc.
Does anyone here at least have knowledge of what's happened with other acquisitions in the past where Hock sold pieces off to HCL?
Were the vast majority laid off when they got to HCL?
Did the people laid off by HCL get any kind of severance package?
No one here knows