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Recently Broadcom went and purchased VMWare. Good for them I guess, buuuuut this now means they are going ahead and messing things up, who would've guessed it.

Their first screw up was laying off a good chunk of their staff. I can't find a very solid number to how many are facing layoffs, but I've seen the general number be up in the 2,000s, which is a whole lot of people.

Another big screw up is the end of perpetual licenses. Now I myself am a VMWare user. I use VMWare Workstation on my computers when I want to fire up a VM every once in a while and I don't want to bog down The Grid. But I don't want to move to a subscription based model, and a lot of people have also reflected that towards VMWare. Software-as-a-Service does not interest me one bit. I paid for the software, I shouldn't have to pay again to prove I "own" it. I feel like quite a few VMWare customers are going to switch over to the likes of Virtualbox, or QEMU for alternatives to workstation. and Proxmox for a alternative to ESXi.

When all is said and done. It's genuinely unfortunate to see a decent company go down the tubes because of an acquisition... It almost seems... Familiar... *cough cough* Tweet Tweet

tl;dr:Broadcom acquires VMWare, starts making bad business decisions.