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Why Engineers Are So Worried About This Acquisition
Why Engineers Are So Worried About This Acquisition
#Engineers #Worried #Acquisition
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Have you ever heard of a company called VMware? They were just recently acquired by Broadcom for a whopping $69 billion. For any founder, this would be a dream to sell for such a large price tag, but engineers are actually extremely worried about this acquisition. In fact, much of the internet…
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Every process it's is own virtual machine 😂. Next time I would expect a video related to the dope that you use while making the videos 😊
What is a "Background Company" ? Never heard this terminology before.
7:00 Which hand is the wrong hand? I have serious doubts.
great sharing, thanks
Broadcom, build into every Raspberry PI?
I learned about VMWare in 2019. It never really interested me because Free software is much more dependable in the long run. The licenses prevent this kind of garbage plaguing VMWare. Also, Free software is frequently free of charge and free of data collection.
Linux killed VMware..Microsoft is Next…in Line..
My IT business has gotten a few more jobs converting vmware to another platform. Been saving them thousands as well over it.
Most people runs KVM anyways
I only used VMware when I was kid to run some beta Windows stuff, KVM is always better for production
10x Price Increase ¯_(ツ)_/¯ https://youtu.be/peH4ic7g5yc
Corporations are the black hole of society.
I haven't used VMware in the last 8 years. I've only used Hyper-V and virtualbox since then. Enough competition to not make me worried.
You left out the history of Broadcom wrecking their previous acquisitions.
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Google do not use VMware, they are competitors who make their own virtualization solutions either as products or in house. In some cases cloud providers have partnered with them.
VMWare stopped innovating once the original ceos were gone. They made products but their innovation dried up and the same products were just repacked, repriced or rebranded for marketing. Companies that shift to treating their shareholders as the customers always die in tech.
I'm on proxmox. Good luck shitware users.
time to learn kvm
Just went through this with skiff 😢
Such poor risk management. Because you asked for it! Proxmox.. kvm, containers… time to move!
Why is China able to block the acquisition? Is any of these companies a Chinese company?
wrong history, IBM invented virtualization way before vmware even existed and the reasons for virtualization comes from mainframes.
learn from history.
Was this a leveraged buyout or did VMware just take the money and run ??
Broadcom will kill it for personal use. It will become an enterprise solution only. It will still make money, maybe even make it more successful. But the free to use space will die as you said.
Some report that price hike is up 10x.
They already axed the free version
Anyone moving to OpenStack?
I wonder what our systems admins are going to be doing heading forwards. I work in K12 IT and we host many virtual servers with ESXi. They're still running 6.7 for some reason. I know they wanted to upgrade, but that was before they wanted to go with a subscription model.
I have a neighbor who worked for Vmware till last year in sales, he now works for MS selling Azure stuff. When he told me he was changing jobs that was all I needed to know that broadcom was going by the same playbook they do with every acquisition and he wasn't happy about it. A few months later I started hearing about the licensing and price changes and what not and wasn't the least surprised.
Great video!
I think I switched to qemu back when I was messing with BSD jails. Nowadays I'm using qemu & docker. Haven't had to do too much with VMWare or VirtualBox except to help friends at other companies.
1:30 "In fact Vmware is completely free" – nawp.. They literally discontinued the free ESXi for home and non-commercial use.
Broadcom also has a tendency to completely restructure their acquisitions – if your idea of restructuring means terminating almost the entire workforce and replacing them.
I helped win the period contract (as a vendor) to supply Symantec Endpoint Protection suite for all the local Technical Colleges several years back.
When Broadcom bought out Symantec, the entire local team was given the handshake. Only the office cleaner (janitor), and accounts team was left – I suspect they'd have let the accounts team go if they didn't have to rely on them to integrate the financial data.
Even then, they screwed up everyone – they couldn't integrate the Symantec SKUs properly and couldn't honour the pricing scheme locked into the period contract; some customers were left hanging out to dry during that time because their licenses were due for renewal too (dependent on the now non-existent SKUs for ordering).
So yes, Vmware folks have a lot to fear from this acquisition.
6:48
you got it wrong over here man, even if a app using containerized env, they still not virtualization, and most of apps does not even use containers, useless you run flatpak apps in linux.
I remember back in middle school, one of my classmates telling me about this company making it possible to boot windows 2000 and slackware on the same computer.
I only understood half of it but it seemed impressive.