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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 08:55:31 JST Ars Technica

   Broadcom killing VMware partner program could disrupt thousands of businesses

   Only Broadcom's favorites will be able to sell VMware-related offerings.

   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/broadcom-killing-vmware-partner-program-could-disrupt-thousands-of-businesses/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 09:06:48 JST Chancerubbage

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     @arstechnica Guess that leaves Parallels, for consumers.

     Things like this tend to happen when business shifts towards a ‘business to business’ model.

   • SaftyKuma (saftykuma@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 11:25:23 JST SaftyKuma

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     @arstechnica
     Hock Tan is one of the greediest SOBs on the planet, but for some reason mostly stays under the radar on the list of oligarchs to hate.

     The Broadcom way is to buy an entrenched tech company, jack the price up but gut staff to a skeleton crew. If you want real support for anything, you get reamed in the wallet.

     If you're a small customer they don't care if you leave. Their goal is to milk big orgs with IT departments that are too slow and inept to migrate off.

   • Lou Cyx (loucyx@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 14:14:55 JST Lou Cyx

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     @arstechnica Let's just leave it at "Broadcom killing VMware" ... which is kinda like "acquisitions in a nutshell" :/

   • Life Surfer (antman78@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 10:55:33 JST Life Surfer

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     @arstechnica 🤔