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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Man, a guy I know who has worked for and evangelized VMWare for years and he’s been oddly quiet on Mastodon today. Guess it’s time to reach out.

Update: His job is safe.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yes, that’s what always happens after a merger. Not sure why everyone is acting so shocked.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 9 points 11 months ago

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.


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[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago
[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The price is nice but I don't get why they don't round it. Same with activision acquisition.

[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well the difference between 69 billion and 70 billion is 1 billion.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tom Scott’s video on 1 million dollars vs 1 billion dollars highlights how crazy 1 billion dollars really is for those that need easy to understand comparisons like me.

https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg?si=EVLrBrWSVYptf3r8

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 6 points 11 months ago

Damn, this must be why I'm not a billionaire. I keep forgetting to do this.

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago

I can believe that they didn’t add 420 million to it…