Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company

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Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company
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VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.

VMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.

Well, now they're down to ~18k if rumors are correct.

That's over half? Gish, that'll be absolutely brutal on the products and technologies... These aren't calendar or email replacements, either - the core hypervisor and associated technologies are heinously complex. There's just no way they can stay alive with that loss of I.P.

There goes the enterprise, I guess. I wonder if hyper-v will clean up in their absence?

I kinda hope proxmox or something FOSS will come through, but RE: the clustering and live migration stuff, I hate to think how well it works (I'm adjacent to this stuff, not working directly in it)