Comment by neilv
They're not migrating users to another VMware company product?
VMware can't sell Pivotal Tracker to some company that will keep it going longer (and perhaps try to migrate customers to their own product)?
They're not migrating users to another VMware company product?
VMware can't sell Pivotal Tracker to some company that will keep it going longer (and perhaps try to migrate customers to their own product)?
Broadcom is in my bad-vendor list due to the handling of VMware.
Most of my job as a developer now is wading through bureaucracy that other people created (e.g., figuring out a poorly-designed, poorly-implemented, and poorly-communicated third-party API that often would be easier to do myself from scratch).
When I do hold my nose and wade through someone else's bureaucracy, and become dependent upon it, it had better not be pulled out from under me by some coked-up MBA who doesn't care what customers think of them.
Actually I think that was the original plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630 Apparently not enough interest to justify continuing.
Can someone explain to me how Broadcom's plan is supposed to be profitable in the long term?
I don't get it. You buy a company, then deliberately destroy it. How is that profitable? I get that there are tax benefits to being able to show massive losses, but certainly the net at the end is still a loss.
I don't think they're aiming to have massive losses. VMWare had $13 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion profit, and it seems their aim is to cut way back on costs by laying off 40% of engineers etc while maintaining what revenue they can, and reap the unrealized profit potential there by giving up R&D, future growth in the VMWare product categories.
Since VMware sold to Broadcom in 2023, they've been cutting jobs and increasing prices to squeeze every bit of profitability possible out of their remaining customers. I'm actually kind of surprised they aren't offering support past April 30 2025 end-of-life date for 50x the current pricing.