From one PE to another… sigh
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Bye Hock!
It feels good to think that when I login on Monday that Broadcom will be a distant memory for me. I wish a speedy transfer to Omnissa for everyone else still stuck at this he-l-hole company.
“ All US based employees are receiving an email today from Fidelity stating that they will become eligible for the Omnissa, LLC 401(k) plan effective July 15th. Deductions will start from August 2nd paycheck.
Final contributions to BC 401(k) will be June 21st.”
This is factually inaccurate. Perhaps MOST U.S. based employees, but definitely not all. IYKYK
Is it worth hoping that we will hear something tomorrow? If we don’t hear tomorrow then June 30th is not going to happen.
Did this actually happen to anyone in EUC?
Yes.
“All US based employees are receiving an email today from Fidelity stating that they will become eligible for the Omnissa, LLC 401(k) plan effective July 15th. Deductions will start from August 2nd paycheck.”
Did this actually happen to anyone in EUC?
All US based employees are receiving an email today from Fidelity stating that they will become eligible for the Omnissa, LLC 401(k) plan effective July 15th. Deductions will start from August 2nd paycheck.
Final contributions to BC 401(k) will be June 21st.
The close will occur on 06/30 or will not? Any insights?
Some of you may recall that the prior CEO and CFO at Citrix were both forced to resign when the board of directors discovered they were reporting inflated SaaS subscription ARR numbers. Maybe it's considered an acceptable white-collar crime until it is exposed.
The shift from on-prem software to cloud SaaS is never easy for legacy vendors. The leadership team underestimates the challenge and signs up for unrealistic ARR goals. When they can't reach those targets, to buy time, they use creative accounting. Eventually, they're exposed. The SaaS ARR renewal lie has trapped many execs in the tech industry
Get your 🍿🍿🍿 ready.
“The use of 'creative accounting' means we'll have to restate the last 3-5 years of revenue.”
Wow - sounds serious. Like something that’s gonna get some attorneys involved…
No surprise here. The prior reporting of the EUC SaaS sales results will be restated to reflect the real performance. VMware finance was under a lot of pressure from Wall Street to demonstrate that the cloud service shift was progressing toward the goal. The use of 'creative accounting' means we'll have to restate the last 3-5 years of revenue.
"Elaborate please for those of us not in the know."
Ex-employees of EUC are working with the acquisition team to plan for the first 30-60-90 days, and KKR already uncovered some things that were not disclosed during the due diligence process. Once the deal closes I expect those details will become more transparent (that's my hope).
Similar to the surprise that Broadcom Software leaders found when they looked over the EUC balance sheet.
Elaborate please for those of us not in the know.
KKR update: divestiture close is delayed due to balance sheet data anomalies
I call BS. You think that with a close date of end of June, any “anomalies” would have been identified before now.
"divestiture close is delayed due to balance sheet data anomalies"
looking bad or just an oversight? deal in threat?
KKR update: divestiture close is delayed due to balance sheet data anomalies
End of June.
"Stick around and find out. You won't have to wait long."
I'm just waiting for KKR to discover what they have acquired. Similar to the surprise that Broadcom Software leaders found when they looked over the EUC balance sheet. It gets 'real' very quickly when they go over the BU finances of the past year. The outlook is equally scary for the remainder of this year. I hope the KKR MBAs are prepared for this.
Any merit increases or promotions this year for EUC folks?
Stick around and find out. You won't have to wait long.
Any merit increases or promotions this year for EUC folks?
Cameyo has been successful in displacing Citrix Workspace, now with Google behind them they're sure to come after our Horizon customers as well. Mid-market especially.
It has already been difficult to win SaaS renewals with Microsoft targeting our installed base. When you add Google/Cameyo to the mix, we're going to be in a world of hurt
By acquiring Cameyo, Google fully commits to enterprise EUC.
With this move, Google envisions Cameyo as an "extension of the cloud endpoint," making it as easy to deploy Windows apps as dropping a "legacy" app into the admin console, configuring access to it and having it show up in Chrome, Chrome Enterprise or in the system tray on a ChromeOS device.
"Broadcom ends free desktop hypervisor and sells EUC division to KKR"
The End. Nothing noteworthy is to happen beyond this point. Story is over and done.
A brief history of VMware and its products
1998: VMware was founded in 1998 in Palo Alto, California, building products that enabled server virtualisation.
2004: Enterprise storage provider EMC completed its $625m purchase of VMware. VMware was operated as a seperate software subsidiary, headed by Diane Greene, with a goal to help customers lower their costs and simplify their operations by deploying virtualisation technologies.
2006: VMware launched VDI Alliance to support desktop virtualisation.
2009: VMware announced vSphere 4, a product it says is the first operating system for building internal clouds.
2013: In a landmark deal, Michael Dell, founder of Dell Technologies, took the company private, in a bid to build out the business, free from shareholder pressure.
2016: In what was seen as the biggest acquisition in the history of tech, Dell acquired EMC, and with it VMware. The company also introduced VMware Airwatch Express for mobile device management.
2019: VMware introduced Tanzu for helping devlopers build containerised cloud-native applications using Kubernetes.
2021: Dell completed the spin-off of its 81% equity ownership of VMware.
2023: Broadcom completed a $69bn acquisition of VMware.
2024: Braodcom ends free desktop hypervisor and sells EUC division to KKR
"Once this divesture actually happens it will essentially be like a startup feel."
I don't believe anything will change the ingrained apathetic culture. I'm not a hater, I'm in the EUC BU marketing org and eager to leave ASAP. If KKR gives us a severance package, then I'm free to start over with a modern marketing organization. There's no future here.
“ For the most part, no. They are mostly the perpetual haters from other parts of VMware who are angry and jealous that EUC has a future elsewhere. Most of them deserve Broadcom.”
Future elsewhere is debatable. PEs are not necessarily a good thing. Let’s see the revenue after the first FY then decide if that’s true.
Person saying they will adhere to VMware severance policy… where is that written. That applied to Broadcom layoffs because Broadcom bought VMware. We won’t know what the severance situation is until we see some paperwork.
The hiring is not necessarily a positive sign of things to come… there are certain personnel requirements needed to make the company run. EUC isn’t just a BU anymore and requires support staff to actually make it a functioning company.
I could my blessings that I got out of EUC. Legacy software at it's worst. App Volumes anyone?
Why not leave? I mean I get it few people have their own reasons to stay, if you praying and wishing you get out, question is who’s forcing you to stay.
I could my blessings that I got out of EUC. Legacy software at it's worst. App Volumes anyone?
PPL here are truly current employee of VMware EUC?
For the most part, no. They are mostly the perpetual haters from other parts of VMware who are angry and jealous that EUC has a future elsewhere. Most of them deserve Broadcom.
PPL here are truly current employee of VMware EUC?
EUC leadership su-ked...and it will continue to su-k!
You said, "KKR has a great portfolio of companies and is leaving the current leadership in pace. That's a great sign in its self!"
Based on your comment, I'm assuming that you are a low-level employee who is simply uninformed about the many challenges that the EUC BU faces due directly to the current inept leadership team. Considering our bookings pipeline, we desperately need new leadership that knows how to grow the business. The custodian management led by Shankar is clueless. That's why they have never communicated a credible vision in our numerous prior EUC all-hands meetings. Also why KKR must quickly change the status quo.
I can't share all the specifics
And you are?? Now that might be a rhetorical question on an anonymous forum, but if you have any legitimate information who cares, you are anonymous why not share it??
The EUC BU has always been more marketing than reality and never more true than anything AI related. It will not help stave off the continued decline of the (now) Omnissa product lines..
once this divesture actually happens it will essentially be like a startup feel. There will continue to be a lot of change.
I can't share all the specifics but there are really good things to come. Breaking away from the big machine of VMware is the best thing that could have happen for EUC. If you look back at any layoffs in the EUC division for the past years it is extremely minimal. Usually the layoffs are in a specific product line that is getting eliminated (and from my experience they just get moved elsewhere rather than laid off)
KKR has a great portfolio of companies and is leaving the current leadership in pace. That's a great sign in its self! Plus all the hiring EUC is doing is a good sign, shows that the division is growing and needs more people.
"KKR must have factored in the lower demand, which would explain the "fire sale" price they paid for VMW EUC"
As soon as the acquisition is closed, then KKR needs to resolve the EUC cashflow issue. Our sales pipeline decline should be top of mind as they attempt to relaunch the EUC BU.
"The question was around where you are getting the AI focus from"
Understood and answered. All the industry analysts have highlighted the shift in focus.
Look for the research, it's easy to find. Don't be lazy. Don't call people names.
Gartner, IDC and Forrester (plus several smaller research firms) have all reported a decline in interest by enterprise CIOs that shifted their IT spending focus to AI tools.
UEM, VDI, and even DaaS were flat or in decline before IT investment was redirected by the C-suite toward artificial intelligence. Also, return-to-office mandates are partly responsible for the decline. KKR must have factored in the lower demand, which would explain the "fire sale" price they paid for VMW EUC
Dmb f*
The question was around where you are getting the AI focus from
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