https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-is-making-some-major-changes-to-stop-vmware-exodus
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Run customers, run!!!! Hock hates you, and only wants your money. All this BS about sinking more money into R&D was a lie. You are being charged more for an product that will not improve and only get worse, support that will only get worse, and prices that will only go up. As Hock loses more customers, the remaining customers will be asked to foot the bill. Run away, and hopefully Broadcom never gets their money back from the acquisition
That ship has long sailed. Hock clearly has not accepted that he is the problem. Any
company he touches turns to sh-t.
The era of a well-known company brands, with reputations and brand loyalty is over.
The era of Private Equity vampires is upon us.
There are many benchmarks with which to measure a company.
For example: Product Quality. Product Innovation. Customer Loyalty.
None of those are used by PE vampires. They only want to extract as much as they can, while producing nothing. Their only benchmark is how much money they can extract from every aspect of the company. Once the company no longer is producing, they will then throw what remains to the scavengers that are lower down on the food chain.
This is the business equivalent of a chop shop that parts-out stolen cars.
From their perspective, they are not destroying, they are making a small cadre of people money.
Short of a near complete reversal of the damage that has been done and a sincere apology to the employees let go, partners scr*wed over, and customers gouged by pricing, this goose is cooked.
No one wants to be in a toxic relationship.
How much more money will partners get to move their customers off VMware?
That ship has long sailed. Hock clearly has not accepted that he is the problem. Any company he touches turns to sh-t. This coupled with the fact that omnissa is now run and controlled by street shitters means both entities are doomed to failure. I doubt either will have any relevant share in 5 years.
Too late. Broadcom can’t be trusted to not pull the rug out again.