Broadcom Said To Be In Talks To Acquire VMware - Bloomberg Reporter Tweet
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marketscreener.comPosted May 23, 2022, 12:08 AM UTC
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marketscreener.comFormer CA Nimsoft customer here, current VMware customer and Salt Project user. I can only pray that this never happens. Please god, no.
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The vmw employees are likely feeling the same right now
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Wow Nimsoft... a name I haven't heard in a long time. We used to be customers way before they were acquired by CA.
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Yeah we were using them since about 2011. I was never a huge fan of the product, but they filled a specific niche that was underserved at the time.
We continued using them for about a year after the Broadcom acquisition, but Broadcom gutted support for the product and transitioned it to forum-based (no live support) and that was the end of our Nimsoft adventure as we transitioned to something else.
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Finding out all your Intel X710s been swapped out for Broadcom.
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Step 1 - Drop support for all Intel and Mellanox NICs in ESXi
Step 2 - ???
Step 3 - Profit
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might be a revenge play for nvidia fucking up cumulus linux.
'oh yeah vmware doesn't support nvidia gpu now'
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How would it be revenge? Didn’t Broadcom block nvidia out of the api required to run it’s NICs in cumulus?
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Oh good, another obstacle to replacing the GRID cards we've been running since the mid-Cambrian.
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I’ll never sell the product again if Broadcom buys it. It was actually impossible to quote renewals on Symantec for over 8 months, I gave up and just told my customers it wasn’t possible and either go somewhere else or change products.
Fuck Broadcom
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VMware customers just need some stability. Enough with the buy/sell pinball game.
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VmWare just got out of an abusive relationship, it needs to be single and work on it's self.
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On the support side when Broadcom bought Symantec it went to crap. We are long time 15+ years customer and almost left due to how bad it was getting but crazy thing is starting last year support started to turn around and now is one of the best vendors I deal with, we use everything but the cloud security and tickets get call backs within mins and we get backend people the min first line can’t solve it. I know other people love to tell me I’m wrong and Broadcom is terrible but just telling what our experience has been.
I wanted to tag in also a VMware customer, they also like to kill support, once they fully took over airwatch we just gave up even calling in. Now with success360 and a tam we get better results.
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Yay for TAMs!
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Yup I've been a Symantec customer for 20 years through various jobs and can confirm that because of the support spiral, we're in talks to move from Symantec over to another product. Really hope Broadcom doesn't absorb VMWare.
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Which product are you using now?
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Symantec Endpoint Protection. Looking hard at Sophos' offerings.
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Uh that is where we get the best support, sorry to hear that.
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Sophos Enterprise console and even Central is nice. Central can sometimes be on the slow side (hooray for cloud management), but stable and functional.
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Oh sweet Lord yes AirWatch support is as useless as tits on a bull. If it’s not fixed by re-enrolling then you’re screwed.
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It's because everyone and his mother jumped ship as soon as they could, lol.
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Yeah, that's what I don't get. For as critical as VMware is for so much of the world's IT teams, why is it that they get the "village bicycle" treatment?
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Legacy hardware IT companies looking at the software overlay management world of 20-years back and going "hey, we should get on that, don't you think?"
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VMware employees are pretty panicked right now. It does not look good for them if this deal goes through.
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VMware*
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This is how you kill off your customer base and send them fleeing towards Nutanix and Hyper-V, if the management at VMWare goes in this direction.
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It'd have to get significantly worse before we went anywhere near Hyper-V. Have you ever dealt with Microsoft support before?!
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At least you can get somewhere with your CSAM at Microsoft.
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Honestly, no. I give up before actually getting to someone in support. The first line guys aren't helpful so I don't count them.
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It’s not management, it’s the board looking out for the shareholders and short term profits. They want the payday now so they can get their big check before they leave. Product and customer base doesn’t matter so much as quarterly growth and dividends.
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"Cool Stuff" post flair? That isn't cool stuff; that's a disaster warning!
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I guess this calls out for a celebration... at Microsoft offices :( ...
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I bet we see a fully supported ESXi ARM though since they are building arm solutions.
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Yea, it definitely seems like an integrated systems play. VMware as Firmware type situation.
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Will it make support suck less?
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"Tell me you've never had to deal with Broadcom without telling me you've never had to deal with Broadcom"
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Lol that's why I asked. I just know dealing with VMware support has been brutal.
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VMware support does make you work for it, but for me it always improves my skills and that's a bonus....
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If your fortunate to have the Success 360 offering, support is actually pretty good.
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We actually got that this year and there hasn't been a noticeable improvement. Especially with workspace one and horizon support
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Not if the Symantec acquisition is anything to judge by. Support should in fact get much much worse.
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I didn’t know it could. VMware support is pretty fucking bad right now, and that’s with enterprise level support.
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Same boat. But trust me, Symantec is even worse.
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Not in this century lol.
Broadcom fucked up Symantec acquisition so badly we weren't able to sell or renew customers for months. So we dumped them and started selling other AV software to our end users.
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Crap! Broadcom likely to screw the company up. oh well time to get the resume together.
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It will likely take a year for the acquisition to go through, and another year+ for the integration to happen so you have time.
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This is interesting. I’m not sure what the future will bring if this happens.
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Your first comment was funnier 😉
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Hah.
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And VMware continues to make it harder and harder to want to do business with them...
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Soo...who's tried Azure HCI?
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I don't recall *where* I saw it at, but I remember reading that Microsoft has already stopped development for Hyper-V and is all in on Azure HCI. Server 2022 will most likely be the last major release from MS with Hyper-V on it
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They normally deprecate a product before they remove it. Since it hasn’t been deprecated on 2022 it’ll probably stick around for a while at least.
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holy fuck what is that price tag?
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God damn, I'd probably sell too if I was VMWare, but I hate to see it.
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I guess it's time to move my retirement up.
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Timmy... your sarcastic post flair is noted.
If those goes through, day drinking is on the upswing.
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I really thought long and hard on which flair to use. This seemed the most fitting.
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(for myself) Deep breaths. Deeeeeeeep breaths.
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Please god no.
Oh dear lord, they have ruined every acquisition to date. Symantec products have become garbage from an enterprise perspective. I can only imagine what they would do with VMware. I could almost see every enterprise suddenly accelerating every cloud initiative and going LVM or HyperV for anything that had to remain in the local data center.
Annual license for every VM you run, additional cost for any cpu or ram on those vms, support contract, shutting down the hypervisor immediately if you don't pay the $4,000 for a small business with one host.
I see it, and I'm sad.
I mean hard to think of much worse than dell running it.
As a former CA Nimsoft user (acquired by Broadcom), I can assure you it will get much, much worse.
Broadcom is like the commercial equivalent of the Apache project: it's where software goes to die.
And that’s coming from someone who’s owned a CA product.
Looks like I’m staying on 6.7 forever then.
Please refer to any Symantec product if you don’t think VMware isn’t doomed if this happens