Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 days agoBroadcom is not playing the long game. They will milk VMware and then dump it or dissolve the company.
Funny enough Broadcom is not doing so well right now (check there stock)
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I don’t really see a problem with it. It painful short term but has the benefit of breaking up centralization and single points of failure.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Well no. VMware had a monopoly but now they have successfully pushed everyone to other software. Not everyone is using the same alternative so the market is more diverse.