What tone-deaf, self-involved mo--n thinks it's appropriate to continue to post sh*t about going to McLaren races? How is this valuable to anyone's morale? Customers? For someone that has absolutely nuked their reputation in the field and has been asked repeatedly to never come back to customers get away with this? Seriously.
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Red Bull F1 are sponsored by Oracle, Zoom and CDW. Quality recognises quality, I guess
Broadcom do sponsor F1. They sponsor Williams.
So we just stop marketing? How d-mb would that be?
Answers are "no" and "very".
The only thing Hock sponsors is the CCP.
Thank god! Go AVGO, go F1!
"Hock won’t be sponsoring F1."
Maybe check out who the sponsors of Williams are!
F1 is not a R&D division for cars normal people drive. It is a business. A rather elite business and making more money than Bernie could have ever imagined.
Try attending one the races, you might want to sell your car to buy tickets.
It’s not just about the engine and how efficient it is for 30-40 laps around the track.
256,000 tons of CO2 emissions each season.
1/2 of that is shipping all that stuff around the world.
I’d Google it for you but I guess you are too stupid to know what Google is.
Go ask a friend for help, then a professional.
"how can we be green but support them"
I facepalm'd at that question. F1 has extremely clean engines. Their designs have helped create better engines for all cars. They even described this in detail at one of the open sessions where they were invited to present. Someone who apparently isn't keeping up with things asking silly questions.
I remember someone asking "how can we be green but support them" and I think it was Kit who said "well they are investing money into renewable energy" blah blah yeah OK.
It was just a way for fan boys to get their rocks off by wasting money.
Live in your nostalgia dreamscape, the world has moved on.
"What decade are you living in? Do you also buy them co----e and take them to strip clubs - because hey, we had a season pass to the stop club and too much coke left over from last quarter?"
Those were actually pretty darn good days in the software business, and a lot of alimony and child support got paid from brass pole deals. Hate the game if you want, but it was just more fun back then...
I too do not agree with VMware directly sponsoring an F1 team, its a massive waste of money for one of the smallest advertising spaces (can hardly see it in amongst all the others) The other thing to note is that the majority of the pit lane are using VMware products in some way shape or from. Circa 2014 I knew of at least 4 top / mid tier teams that were using the core product at the factories and at the track on race weekends.
Hock won’t be sponsoring F1. People can do what they want, companies have a public image to project, sponsoring F1 is not a good look for a “progressive” company. People also send checks to the K-K, should VMware do it? There is no analogy to make between what people do and want a company does. Maybe Disney can open an abortion clinic on their cruise ships, I mean people are getting abortions right?
VMware is still a thing, and the sponsorship still stands. At the end of the year, VMware will still be sponsoring things. Just with the check on Broadcom letterhead. Yes, people are still waking up, eating, and buying nice things. The world doesn't stop just because you're upset.
Hocks sales strategy of “if you don’t pay, your data center shuts down” is a far more effective and cost efficient strategy.
F1 tickets for customers, give me a break! What decade are you living in? Do you also buy them co----e and take them to strip clubs - because hey, we had a season pass to the stop club and too much coke left over from last quarter?
Total waste of money and you should be embarrassed for trying to justify it.
The F1 tickets are complementary as a result of the McLaren sponsorship BTW and customers will have been invited to the races many months ago, hence VMware folks need to attend.
I really couldn’t care less. However the point about being green is spot on. Now, if the McClaren team were leading electric F1 that might be kind of cool. (I don’t think they are, right?)
They went on about how mcclaren uses VMware products, but that is a really hard message to deliver without it just seeming like making excuses to throw money at motor sports.
It is a farce and the execs milking VMware for everything they can on the last hurrah. Anyone see a single use case or derivative product for Vmware coming from this??? That's what I thought...
How can you have a "Green" agenda and all the tech for good cr-p and still sponsor F1 which is a rich kids game with all the trappings of frat party lifestyle paid by the rich daddies...
Just a joke and another example of the absolute lack of character of the VMware execs that signed up to this BS.
Scrêw those ässholes.
To be clear, these are funded by VMware and a huge waste. I mean why are we flying Americas field resources to Europe and Australia to be at the races? Just a leadership boondoggle.
Who's paid enough to fly to a race and buy F1 tickets? Must be an SVP.
well...the execs have all enjoyed five star trips to the F1 races so of course they love it!
Yo bro, we gotta spend like it’s 1999.