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Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] otl@lemmy.srcbeat.com 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

And Broadcom has a history of buying companies and squeezing every cent from them before they destroy them. I don’t expect VMWare to be around in 10 years.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pezhore@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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