• BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
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    1 year ago

    Most of the time, companies are bought either for patents or products they have. So they either don’t need the workforce or already have their own.

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      1 year ago

      It’s also worth noting in this case that a large part of Broadcoms business model is to buy enterprise products with high vendor lock in, fire all support and development, jack up the price, and basically just squeeze as much money as possible out of very business that is to slow or unwilling to change.

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        1 year ago

        Yep. Broadcom fucking sucks, they’re and they’re really good at doing this. Can’t wait until VMWare costs more than the systems it’ll be running on 🙄