Same like Elon, firing useless people who join for the "perks"

that why if small business, open source ftw. dun get locked by business and finance ppl dictating a software/hardware tech product.

My side kenot lari coz a lot need migrate. Kena chop liao. Ccb them. Conlan97firm tukar.

This post has been edited by kcchong2000: Dec 9 2025, 06:31 PM

This. When Elon fired most of Twitter with no changes to how Twitter function, most of Tech companies followed suit.

Tech business have too many fatties and dead weight.

You read the sentence wrongly. All the campus buildings already sold except for 5.

My company seeing record hardware sales this year. A lot of customers giving up on VM and moving back to hardware instead. Trend reversed from 10 years ago when people started migrating to VMs and started giving up hardware.

Need to start from schools and universities.

Macam Netflix lor suka suka naik harga. Conlan97firm ppl will move out. This year he untung thanks to this as ppl can't move out on time, moving forward next year onwards vmware will start kena lor..

This post has been edited by kcchong2000: Dec 9 2025, 06:37 PM

Too lazy to foruming these days so just post AI summary why I hate VMware post-Broadcom and Broadcom in general.

The general complaints about Broadcom's acquisition of Symantec's Enterprise Security Business (and CA Technologies) before VMware largely follow a consistent pattern focused on aggressive cost-cutting and a shift in business strategy that disadvantaged smaller customers and partners.
The major complaints centered on three core areas:
💰 Pricing and Licensing
The most significant and consistent complaint across all of Broadcom's software acquisitions, including Symantec, was the immediate and dramatic change to pricing and licensing models.
* Drastic Price Increases: Customers reported massive price hikes, with anecdotal reports ranging from 82% up to several hundred percent for renewals and new contracts.
* Forced Bundling: Customers were often forced to buy products in large bundles (SKUs) that included software they did not want or need (sometimes called "shelfware") to retain access to the core, essential products.
* End of Perpetual Licenses: Broadcom shifted the models from the acquired companies' traditional perpetual licenses to more expensive, mandatory subscription-based models.
🎯 Customer and Partner Focus
A key part of the Broadcom playbook is to rationalize the customer base, which created significant disruption for many legacy users.
* Focus on Global 2000: Broadcom explicitly stated a strategy to focus only on the largest enterprises (the Global 2000 accounts), which make up a core, "sticky" customer base.
* Alienation of Mid-Market/SMBs: This shift left the commercial, mid-market, and smaller customers feeling abandoned, with reports of their accounts no longer being valued, their dedicated sales reps being eliminated, and being told their accounts would essentially be allowed to "churn out" of the business.
* Channel Disruption: The number of channel partners and resellers was drastically reduced, and many larger accounts were moved to direct sales, damaging the relationship ecosystem that customers relied on for support and integration.
📉 Innovation and Support
The aggressive cost-cutting that followed the acquisitions led directly to a decline in service quality and product momentum.
* Diminished Support: Customers reported a significant drop in customer service and technical support quality, with less responsive service and the elimination of knowledgeable support staff following layoffs. For some Symantec customers, support experience went "from bad to worse."
* Reduced R&D Investment: Broadcom implemented deep cuts in Research and Development (R&D) spending (e.g., a reported 40% cut at the Symantec Enterprise Security business). This led to concerns about stalled development, slower innovation, and the eventual end-of-life for non-core products that customers depended on.
* Layoffs and Brain Drain: Massive post-acquisition layoffs led to the departure of institutional knowledge and technical talent (referred to as "brain drain"), further impacting the quality of support and future product development.

when finance and business guy have more say than tech ppl in tech solution/product (software or hardware), then you know what will be the eventual outcome. innovation will suffer, because R&D is a money pitt, business and finance ppl won't have the technical capacity to envision result and impact. they only look at it as an uncertain money "black hole". eventually, they will just acquired other company with establish patent and use it/commercialize it rather than doing it themself.

That's the folly of IT. Its about chasing the it things.
Now companies being extorted by these big tech because they hold your data in their cloud. The next fad comes, will be bringing all that shit back on prem

This post has been edited by killdavid: Dec 9 2025, 06:49 PM

Thanks to him, VMWare Pro workstation is free. Best gift ever

what so good about the vmware?

shcool and universities should just use linux really and contribute to the open source comunity also... people nowadays, say tech savy, even 7 year old can code. but how many can actually contribute to stable operating system.

really respect the creator of linux, it is really something phenomenon and go against all the business rules and it still able to survive and thrill until today..

After the AWS incident, business folks realised their business is at the mercy cloud, and not cheap also to host due many variables (not just from OPEX, but other non cost related).

Hence the reverse.

Stable Virtualization platform

Del

This post has been edited by RT8081: Dec 9 2025, 07:20 PM

There were numbers of redditers have moved away from VMware to Proxmox, hyper-v etc due to ridiculous price hike.

the VM using mean is cloud? coz you know.. there are still people who do self hosting on self own hardware running a hypervisor(vm host)

Some redditers feedback nutanix isn’t cheap either