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As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank (arstechnica.com)
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[–] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A big part of Broadcom's current business model seems to be:

  • Buy company that makes an important product/service used by many big companies.
  • Squeeze the acquired company for every last drop of short term profit; increasing prices, abandoning products, etc.
  • Watch large companies jump ship to other solutions
  • Repeat
[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A good reason to try to avoid being deeply dependent on a product that a single company controls that's hard to transition away from. Even if you're happy with that company, someone else might manage to get control of them.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Products go to Broadcom to die.