Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware’s still making money.
  • octobladeEnglish
    28·
    5 months ago

    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.todayEnglish
      11·
      5 months 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.