It's not hard to see why nobody is denying that it will be divested:
Nothing to do with mainframes (saas/app sec)
Profit margins not in alignment with BRCM's strategy,
Semi-independent operation.
The question is, who could be interested in buying it ? / who might have bought it already?
Who evever buys VC they will have to have a SaaS only business model. Honestly, those VC folks are great—s---s to get acquired, then acquired only to be sold off again.
Fb is going to grab vc octane was presented offer. no other buyers.
Everything from Automic and later should be divested easily enough. I pity the SourceClear folks who sold out and then learned CA was being sold in a garage sale a couple of months later. They are f---ed.
Qualms is light on the AppSec side. Rapid7 just acquired some AppSec capability but would have been a good fit. Palo Alto is growing fast but also made a lot of acquisitions recently.
Could be interesting for Splunk or RSA to enter this space. Microsoft could digest them quite easily.
Quakes has a nice three billion market cap and lot of synergies. Thank god CA hasn’t spoiled Veracode the way it spiked so many other acquisitions