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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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146 points belter | 1 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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beambot ◴[03 Dec 24 17:10 UTC] No.42308482[source]▶
Broadcom's handling of the VMWare acquisition gives me a renewed perspective and surprising appreciation of Oracle.
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ebiester ◴[03 Dec 24 17:33 UTC] No.42308746[source]▶
Both of them are lawnmowers.

They are looking to extract the maximum amount of money possible. I'd argue that Broadcom could extract more money with smaller uplifts but I think they are also looking to consolidate their customer base. Some of these crazy numbers may be doing just that - saying that these people aren't wanted as customers anymore.

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hotstickyballs ◴[03 Dec 24 17:45 UTC] No.42308883[source]▶
Extracting the maximum amount of money possible is the primary purpose of a company. It’s what you should expect to happen.
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1propionyl ◴[03 Dec 24 17:52 UTC] No.42308975[source]▶
> Extracting the maximum amount of money possible is the primary purpose of a company.

Is it really though?

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1. p_l ◴[03 Dec 24 18:15 UTC] No.42309283[source]▶
It's really not, but certain economist pushed such idea a lot to the point people think it's a law (and pushed it in business ethics context to make it funnier)