First announced back in May 2022, Broadcom (mostly known for its range of networking & server chips) has finally closed its acquisition of VMware (server virtualisation & management) after the Chinese government agreed to the US$69b deal. The press release says "we can now come together and have the scale to help global enterprises address their complex IT infrastructure challenges by enabling private and hybrid cloud environments and helping them deploy an apps anywhere strategy", but ask anyone how Broadcom operates as a business and they're a pack of hard bastards that are more interested in bean counting than engineering. For now it feels like business as usual, but we all know how that goes. Ask Redhat and IBM, or Sun and Oracle.
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