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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: 0.206s | 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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1. throw0101d ◴[03 Dec 24 23:23 UTC] No.42312824[source]▶
> Extracting the maximum amount of money possible is the primary purpose of a company.

[citation needed]

More subtle consideration: over what period of time? A quarter? Year? Decade? Other?

The leadership at Boeing tried to maximize numbers for a while, and where are they now?

Jack Welch who is/was all about monetary results:

> Regarding shareholder value, Welch said in a Financial Times interview on the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, "On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy...your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products."[69]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Politics