You may be surprised at how much more efficiently and focused VMware runs under Broadcom with 50% less employees and the 20 years of junk cleaned out of the garage.
CA’s software portfolio and business is cleaner, simpler and more coherent under Broadcom without the endless empty promises of growth and innovation that were made for so many years with nothing to show for it.
I’m expecting to be surprised about how much it will su-k to work at Broadcom despite the horror stories already told.
Broadcom just milks the products as long as they can produce milk. Once that is done, they just throw it off and go on to another one. That is why their organization structure is so much leaner. There is nothing as innovation or product development in the company. If you are lucky to get a long run in the company, then you make heaps of money. Everybody has an expiry date that is set by Hock and nobody can escape that.
Nobody buys CA software anymore.
And that’s the point.
The sales have already been made. The money rolls in from previous contracts and with some smart cost cutting and low employee counts Broadcom can harvest high margins without spending on expensive new-sales efforts.
Think of what Broadcom is doing as if they were buying oil leases from previous oil finds and discoveries.
They just want the oil. They’re not interested in scratching around in the dirt to find new wells. I’m not sure if this is true for the entire Broadcom technology portfolio but for CA they’re just milking existing contracts.
Who even buys CA software anymore?
And nobody talks about CA anymore 🤣
"The legacy VMware virtualization software market has become just like the CA mainframe software market -- irrelevant to many industry analysts and most senior decision makers in the large enterprise arena."
Agreed, and this is the key point. VMware will lead a market that nobody cares about anymore, with the exception of a few soon-to-retire SysAdmins that have no influence.
Clearing out the dead wood that has been hired in as part of the H1B mafia is a start, but if you don't take out the management that has created the mess, it won't be fixed.
BC has more than $100 billion in debt. Talk about applying "ruthless efficiency" internally first.
Terrible company.
I think any former CA employee who is still with Broadcom can sign this.
I really love this happened to CA. We had some many internal organizations which were supporting other internal organizations which did nothing at all. There are gone and we got their money in stocks.
I love the way BC put up these posts thinking nobody does any independent thinking for themselves. This is just propaganda and a reverse psychology way of telling people they will fire half of us. Vile company.
Hock has your check in the post 10 minutes ago and sends his thanks. Don't think the 20k losing their jobs give a sh-t. You should look at the ca inc layoff.com, foes not seem like a smiley bunch after a BC acquisition, more like staff in perpetual fear.
"CA’s software portfolio and business is cleaner, simpler and more coherent"
This is a valid comparison. The legacy VMware virtualization software market has become just like the CA mainframe software market -- irrelevant to many industry analysts and most senior decision makers in the large enterprise arena.
"VMware by Broadcom" will have little mindshare in the future of cloud innovation, and even less relevance in the rapidly evolving AI space. So, there's no surprise here at all.
Nice to see Broadcom HR posting on these sites. Hope you get a raise for this one.