“As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company.”
Totally devoid of any humanity. Corporate jargon freaks me out. It shouldn’t, but it really gets to me.
Shareholders are the worst creation of capitalism so far.
It allows you to create anonymous gray masters that you must serve at any cost no matter how humanly heinous they are.
Also, the bad thing that can happen to the shareholders is that they lose a little money whereas the people beholden to the shareholders can lose everything they have including their souls, and all the shareholders have to do is say “I had nothing to do with it, I just bought a piece of paper, I didn’t even get a piece of paper I got an nft” and wash their hands of the whole thing.
The fact that our retirement accounts are being used to fund the hedge managers that create small shareholders that run the businesses that fire us so that the large shareholders get more money now in hopes that in some theoretical future the small shareholders get enough money to enjoy our twilight years is absolute insanity.
It is jargon for sure, and bloviating to mask layoffs.
A merger will always have layoffs because there will be duplication of roles, especially in lower/middle management.
Some duplication may also occur in boots-on-the-ground roles, depending on the companies.
They’re masking it? Seems pretty plain to me.
It’s “polite” and therefore right. The angry people are the ones being unreasonable and are thus wrong. They instead should write a calm sounding letter, submit it to the media that is totally not owned by the same shareholders that wronged them. /s
That’s capitalism. It’s a system that is devoid of humanity. Money is above everything, including human life.
the uncanny valley has made verbal inroads.
It sounds more like an AI-generated statement
If your company is being acquired, you need to assume you, the employee, are disposable and not the reason for the acquisition.
Particularly Broadcom, which is where old technologies go to die.
Isn’t that IBM?
There are several places - Computer Associates was the olther classic place - until it was bought by Broadcom.
Oh, did they? Well that’s some shit that floats upwards!
- Oracle has entered the chat *
Yup. Warm up that resume and work on an exit strategy.
Mergers always mean layoffs.
Especially with their sizes: Broadcom has 20,000 employees and VMWare has 38,000.
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.
VMWare has 38k? holy hell. I was surprised by slack having over 3k.
VMware is shockingly massive. Hundreds of different products and many, many teams.
Well, now they’re down to ~18k if rumors are correct.
That’s over half? Gish, that’ll be absolutely brutal on the products and technologies… These aren’t calendar or email replacements, either - the core hypervisor and associated technologies are heinously complex. There’s just no way they can stay alive with that loss of I.P.
There goes the enterprise, I guess. I wonder if hyper-v will clean up in their absence?
I kinda hope proxmox or something FOSS will come through, but RE: the clustering and live migration stuff, I hate to think how well it works (I’m adjacent to this stuff, not working directly in it)
Guess I’m moving to proxmox
Free ESXi will also be killed off I bet
I’ve been using PM for about a year now. It’s quite nice, although I’ll fully admit I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do. I’ve heard a lot of people transition to Prox and adapt fairly quickly.
It’s not… A walk in the park, and some stuff will have you manually editing files, as the UI might be missing those. But so far I’ve been a happy user for a bunch of years.
I can’t count the number of times I had to do that under ESXi, or do manual vSAN recoveries, so I found myself quite comfortable doing that in proxmox too (especially since proxmox is regular debian).
Yeah, not unlike the Linux experience; there will be times where you have to touch and/or nano configs. If you’re comfortable with such things, excellent. If not… you fidna get comfortable.
As someone who moved to Proxmox for my 3-node homelab, good luck.
I find the automation for deploying VMs to be woefully incapable compared to Terraform/PowerCLI on the VMware side. Not to mention things like load balancing/DRS are flat out missing.
I managed to get it stable enough for homelab-y things like *arr, plex, DNS, etc - but at this point I would quit rather than use it in a production environment. Or maybe I would just look at bare metal kubernetes instead.
Have you seen xcp-ng and xen orchestra?
Huh, I use terraform for my Proxmox clusters without any major issues. What kind of trouble does it give you?
The biggest issue is being in aware of migrations for load balancing. If VM 1 is deployed to Node 1 with Terraform, then is moved to Node 2 at some point for load balancing, Terraform tries to recreate it on Node 1.
Also, I have a slight moral objection to one of the top providers being developed by a for-profit prison company.
IaaS or gtfo? I would love to see more development in this area, but I think you might be covering a bit too much ground with “in a production environment”. Tons of smaller (and not so small) companies are still running piles of bare metal chaos and could benefit greatly from even the simplest Proxmox setup.
Your use case sounds like kubernetes would be a way better fit as dynamicly scaling and load balancing is kinda the whole point of kubernetes.
Proxmox clustering is essentially just for adding redundancy and nothing more.
I’ve got the project on my list to test oVirt.
I still fail to see how this benefitted anyone at either Broadcom or vmware
It didn’t have to. It had to benefit shareholders and stock prices, that’s it.
That said, you can be damn sure it benefited the executive teams at both companies, very lucratively. Anyone below VP level can get bent, of course, as is tradition with M&A deals.
Wait how in the ever loving fuck is VMware worth $70B?
They’re the single largest name in virtualization. Almost half of all companies using virtualization are using VMware. And that’s a lot of companies. Companies who have to pay licenses to use it. That’s a lot of worth.
Damn vmware was miserable enough to work with already. Guess broadcom felt like pissing in the piss lake.
At this point, if you find out you’re getting or have gotten bought out, you should immediately just update your resume and start looking.
Although I agree, it is also nice to stick around and see what severance is offered as well. I’ve had friends who got paid out and were able to find a new job within a month of being let go and we’re able to pocket the extra money as a bonus. I get that it’s not always the case, and who knows if you will be so lucky to even find a job.
I mean sure but be prepared, I think that’s the important part
When my internship was ending one of the Sysadmins gave some solid resume advice: make sure you can add at least one new skill to your resume every year. This forces you to keep your resume updated and gives you a warning sign for when your skills/tooling may be getting stale
I’m shocked. This definitely wasn’t predicted by literally everyone.
What do I use now? I’ve tried virtualbox and it didn’t work well for me. Do I use Proxmox?
Proxmox for the win. As a complete hobbyist it’s been amazingly easy to use with enough features to keep me learning.
Yeah, it’s solid. Also be sure to check out Proxmox Backup.
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Paid time off and a severance and they don’t have to return to office? Sounds like the folks getting laid off got the better deal
In a previous article: Everything we know about what’s going on at VMware as employees leave in droves ahead of the $61 billion Broadcom acquisition
talent at VMware has started to leave the company because of uncertainty around the deal’s influence and hints from Broadcom’s CEO about ending remote work
From the get-go, Broadcom’s plan to buy VMware seemed far-fetched. The companies have little overlap, and with its massive price tag, the acquisition would rank among the highest ever in tech.
Yeah, this was doomed. It looks like nobody in the know was surprised. Customers, employees and analysts saw the layoffs coming.
I wonder where these people went. With the announcement of Apple’s gaming support, my bet is on that or over to Oracle to work on VirtualBox.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Many VMware employees learned Monday that their positions will be eliminated following Broadcom closing its acquisition of the company.
Employees whose positions were eliminated received an email on Monday viewed by Business Insider that said, "Broadcom recently completed its acquisition of VMware.
As part of integration planning, and following an organizational needs assessment, we identified go-forward roles that will be required within the combined company.
We want to make this transition as smooth as possible, including offering you a generous severance package and providing you a non-working paid notice period," the email continued.
VMware had already begun job cuts prior to the acquisition closing, BI previously reported.
In the past year, several top VMware executives have left the cloud computing company.
The original article contains 333 words, the summary contains 121 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I’m already investigating alternatives for my company to move away from vmware for when it inevitably turns to shit. We have not forgotten the shit Broadcom pulled with Veritas and finally managed to move away from that fully last year. Azure Arc seems promising and I have heard that a lot of companies are already switching from an old colleague.
Thankfully we have KVM still ticking along
