Thread regarding VMware layoffs

Kind of agree - we do not want to damage the VMware brand -> after all we love VMware!
On the other hand isn't it damage to layoff 70% of the staff and also dispel 70% of the smaller customers and then increase licenses with 10-20% each year for the rest of the customers?

We do not know what will happen but read this for example:

https://kicksec.io/vmware-too-big-to-fail/

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Being ‘se-y’ is not all that sells and Broadcom could see this, having products that can not be easily be replaced are a great business to be in as just like ransomware, the prices can be increased each year by 10-20% and there is nothing that can be done to change this when the company “selling you software” has you ‘secured’ with no alternative solutions.
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The primary strategy for all large Broadcom clients was for a 10-20% uplift per year without exception, because it is 30% of customers that return 80% of the profit – smaller sales cost more money per dollar earned, which is no great surprise. This will also be true for VMware clients if the acquisition proceeds.
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Customers (the king??) will be happy to break this deal too, agree?
Broadcom is obviously a bloodsucker and deserves to be punished.
And obviously the shareholder is bigger then a king.

We kind of know the enemy if we assume they would do the same this time again - it seems they plan to do that if you check the slides.

Sorry, if this is an unpopular dose of reality, but wake up and smell the coffee! This buyout is 99% certain to go down as planned. To those who want to sabotage VMware to make it less appealing, you are still being paid by VMware to do a job to drive positive results for the company. Do anything to damage the VMware brand or results and I hope you are unceremonially terminated with no severance before the acquisition date. You may as well go tilting at windmills.
I'm not too thrilled with the uncertainty either, but as a well-paid employee, it is still my professional duty to provide to the company the services I am compensated for to the best of my ability. I'll deal with the business decisions in a professional manner.

Employees and customers should create a change petition to a) Stanford University to cancel lease for the Palo Alto campus b) FTC for antitrust Laws

Employees and customers should create a change petition to a) Stanford University to cancel lease for the Palo Alto campus b) FTC for antitrust

I have though almost the same - VMware value is $61 billion with the employees.
And without employees how much it is?
It is zero!
Just some code out there, products without support and future = no more value in it.
Company effectively disappears.
This is our last chance...

So shareholders are most important but if all employees are against the changes that Broadcom is planning than what?
VMware employees stay at VMware because they like the culture and so on and they new that Broadcom will end that so no more VMware like we know it today.

We can do that if significant percentage of VMware employee get it! Unfortunately I did not see many attention to this thread? Maybe the name is not good enough or you think the idea is not good enough?
Not sure how this can be done, only pausing or some for of protests or? ideas?

I agree with this, make VMware as unappetizing as possible. Organize, vote for union representation, discuss your salaries with co-workers, make noise, and slow the F down. The self-serving drivel from leadership (looking at you Raghu and John Sabino) about how we need to keep 'doing what we do' and 'working hard' is just nauseating. And don't tell us to focus on our customers, you have made it very clear that they matter as little as the employees when compared to the almight stock holders.

Symantec tried this in Germany and the result was they closed all of Germany and paid off their employees. The demand was for a company car but instead they lost their jobs and about €200,000 in stock that's now worth more than double now.