<story><title>Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/chipmaker-broadcom-buy-vmware-61-bln-deal-2022-05-26/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SSLy</author><text>Oh no &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;uxucz4&amp;#x2F;if_vmware_is_acquired_by_broadcom_run_and_do_not&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;uxucz4&amp;#x2F;if_vm...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>technion</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s relevant that they are talking about VMware&amp;#x27;s security portfolio.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of why people are VMware proponents is down to their virtualisation software. It&amp;#x27;s why we were big resellers for a while. But for the last few years, their own sales people have only wanted to talk about security products,  quite plainly acknowledging stagnant growth in on premise virtualisation.&lt;p&gt;But virtualisation is in my view the only place they&amp;#x27;ve made it big. You&amp;#x27;ve just linked a Reddit post in &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity talking about security products and every reply is about how to replace ESXi. It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see how their future pans out.</text></comment>
<story><title>Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/chipmaker-broadcom-buy-vmware-61-bln-deal-2022-05-26/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>SSLy</author><text>Oh no &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;uxucz4&amp;#x2F;if_vmware_is_acquired_by_broadcom_run_and_do_not&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cybersecurity&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;uxucz4&amp;#x2F;if_vm...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwatson</author><text>Yep, that&amp;#x27;s Broadcom&amp;#x27;s business model ... buy a business (VMWare), ignore its smaller customers, upsell the Fortune 500 on the product (VMWare) to push out competing solutions, and keep the line items on those Fortune 500 bills growing. It&amp;#x27;s worked for them I guess. I left a Broadcom acquisition before the takeover.</text></comment>