Soon turtles also become guilinggao

dont care , AVGO shares doubled since Apr low this year, thank you hock tan. #tothemoon #NBDRE

Harap dia dapat karma.

Ah Hock

It's business

You'll probably do the same if you are in his position

Otherwise you will lose your post

So your choice

Man if you call that remark making fun of employees these kids better man the f up. Or consider being self employed
Every townhall might be trigger warning events

U know vmware license naik berapa times thanks to him?

This years he chopped a lot of business owner using vmware. Hope a lot ppl migrate to other platform. Boikote VMWare. KNS.

This post has been edited by kcchong2000: Dec 9 2025, 06:07 PM

Q4 profit verry da gooding...

but all Tech company will need to pull new trick next year liaoa lor...

this 2 years choppedi chopz chopz trick ... next yearr nothing much to chopz anymore...

Keeping the turtles for Feng sui purpose

Still very cinapek of him. Me like

Chop everything end up become sweat shop, business lari to other places

Employee also run good ah hock

Still using esxi 7 ownself support

chop chop chop, vmware only wants F500 companies

That is perpetual license, no more support. esx 8 all subscription. After broadcom take over. This CBkia terus singa bukake mulut besar terus baham all business owner.

This post has been edited by kcchong2000: Dec 9 2025, 06:16 PM

typical chinaman mentality

sell 5 buildings sure gooding. next year how many more building can sell?

the first thing the new owners will usually do after acquirring a company is cutting of fat/restructuring/cutting cost

can't escape

A stroke of Chinaman genius. Pg apek style.

vmware stop all products to consumer market.

only focus on enterprise.

place I work at already lari to nutanix since vmware support so lousy even with active license

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

VMware may be selling software but people buy it cause of their service. Without people to service the customer, people will be less inclined to buy.

This post has been edited by ReoAyanami: Yesterday, 03:15 AM

it's not usually, but at least the support responds pretty quickly and is actually helpful.

This post has been edited by Quantum Geist: Dec 9 2025, 07:05 PM

He creates a lot of millionaire at Penang too.

Bukan terrapins ka? Turtles 404 😁

Can see the trend.

I always thought it was stupid. Ironically, my career here was built on the virtual platform because I was hired to virtualised the functionality that they previously sold as a add-on hardware accelerator. Actually, it was great for the company because customers could try the software version and then started buying licenses for it. Even now that they are moving back to hardware platforms, they will still be using the software version rather than a add-on hardware accelerator, which has been discontinued.

No, our customers a lot doing self-hosting due to sensitive data. Just recently, a couple of big ones started ordering lots of new hardware from us. We can't get enough chips for our platforms.

Yup, looks like good day for vendors to support onpremise equipment

This post has been edited by RT8081: Dec 9 2025, 08:28 PM

Broadcom spent 69bil to acquire VMWare, Hock Tan have to find way to cut cost and recoup back asap

boycott

I have loss count on how many companies that he had acquired since become ceo.

He remove the turtle, he remove company longevity. I bet all 4th floor rename to 3A too.

that is how finance and business ppl do stuff, they do not develop a product/own solution to sell. they buy ready made business/solution and make it theirs.

just like this.



This post has been edited by brkli: Dec 9 2025, 09:15 PM

What do you think about proxmox or hyper-v?

Proxmox is pretty good if you're willing to learn how to configure/harden/manage with mostly documentation and forum help, not sure how resilient it is for production though, it has Ceph storage, but I'm not really knowledgeable about that part. Not sure if there's anyone in Malaysia that offers proxmox support for on-prem deployments.

I don't really know much about hyper-v outside of using it to run a linux vm that's not wsl on my work computer. It has issues with running some desktop environments that aren't common, like Cosmic DE, that's about the only thing notable I know.

Broadcom overpaid for the purchase. Now they need a fall guy executioner to perform the unfavorable right-sizing tasks

Used VWware a decade ago

too bad seeing a bright star fallen

This. Luckily I buy more instead of averaging bursa stocks

depend la, your shop got real engineer capable of handling it without support or not
if sikit sikit call vendor, anything also wont work well

sack paid

He only wants the tech not the people.

it's a dog eat dog world

i know one CEO kena like this

he removed anyone he doesnt like by asking them to resign. Some of them are the best performers who couldn't get along with him or constantly disagree with him. Surprise that no one complained him to Labour Office

few years later, he was removed from office by the board instead.

It's all business.

This type of news also attract so many racist remarks. When a white CEO does a restructure it was normal.

How?
The shares can buy world wide, why only penang?

Perghhh so many perks....
Wellbeing allowance 1k

This post has been edited by hickups: Yesterday, 05:31 AM

I was refering to their employees at penang plant.

Huh? Wtf.. Their employees benefits so high or salary?

I'm in the wrong industry 😭