Broadcom In Talks To Buy Cloud Computing Firm VMWare - Benzinga:
Broadcom Inc is reportedly in discussions to take over cloud computing company VMWare Inc.
VMWare denied commenting, while a Broadcom representative wasn't available immediately, according to Bloomberg.
Broadcom has been on the lookout for big software acquisition, noted Bloomberg. In 2018, the Hock Tan-led company announced the acquisition of infrastructure technology company CA Technologies for $18.9 billion in cash. The following year it purchased Symantec Corporation's enterprise security business.
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies Inc, along with Silver Lake are top investors in VMWare, according to Bloomberg.
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Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal – TechCrunch:
Sometimes when there is smoke, there is actually fire. Such was the case with the rumors of Broadcom's interest in VMware this past weekend. It turns out that fire was burning hot, and today, Broadcom announced it is acquiring VMware in a massive $61 billion deal.
The deal is a combination of cash and stock, with Broadcom assuming $8 billion in VMware debt.
With VMware, Broadcom gets more than the core virtualization, which the company was built on. It also gets other pieces it acquired along the way to diversify, like Heptio for containerization, and Pivotal, which helps provide support services for companies transitioning to modern technology. At the same time it bought Pivotal, it also acquired security company Carbon Black.
That touches upon a lot of technology, but it begs the question, where does it all fit with Broadcom (which has spent a fair amount of money in recent years buying up a couple of key software pieces prior to today's announcement)?
[...] VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram put the typical positive spin on the deal about the two companies being better together. "Combining our assets and talented team with Broadcom's existing enterprise software portfolio, all housed under the VMware brand, creates a remarkable enterprise software player," he said in a statement, referring to those two other pieces Broadcom already owns.
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One of biggest (and dullest) big tech acquisitions ever may be blocked by the European Commission:
The European Union plans to carry out a full-scale investigation of Broadcom's $61 billion bid to buy VMware. Following a preliminary probe, the European Commission, the bloc's executive branch, announced on Tuesday it believes the proposed acquisition may allow Broadcom to "restrict competition" in the markets for network interface cards, fiber channel host-bus adapters and storage adapters.
Specifically, the EU is concerned Broadcom may harm competition in those markets by limiting interoperability between rival hardware and VMware's server virtualization software. [...]
The Commission will also investigate whether Broadcom could hinder rivals like NVIDIA and Intel from developing their own smart network interface cards. Here it points to VMWare's involvement in Project Monterey, an industry-wide effort the company announced in 2020. "Broadcom may decrease VMware's involvement in Project Monterey to protect its own NICs revenues," the Commission notes. "This could hamper innovation to the detriment of customers." Another concern is that Broadcom could start bundling VMware's virtualization software with its own mainframe and security tools, a move that would reduce choice in the market.
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Broadcom to Acquire VMware in Massive $61B Deal
Broadcom in Talks to Buy Cloud Computing Firm VMWare
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @05:56AM (1 child)
AKA Computer Associates, the bottom feeder extortion outfit run by Charles Wang? I was wondering what happened to it. Didn't Wang go to jail?
(Score: 2) by boltronics on Thursday May 26 2022, @03:28AM
Yes, I used to work at CA over a decade ago back when they had their Threat division for anti-malware products (before outsourcing it all to HCL). I vaguely recall us having to do yearly ethics training or some such, even as a system administrator and not having anything to do with accounting.
I don't care too much for VMware's software (I haven't used them since... working at CA actually) but I do care about the recently acquired SaltStack project. I use it daily for work, and even on my home server where I run a bunch of Xen VMs.
It's GNU/Linux dammit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @07:32AM (5 children)
You heard it here first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2022, @09:17AM (4 children)
https://www.servethehome.com/getting-started-with-vmware-esxi-on-arm-with-a-raspberry-pi/ [servethehome.com]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday May 25 2022, @06:33PM (3 children)
I'd just like a $15 computer that uses 5W of power and can run old x86 games like Civilization II, Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 to 3. Maybe even the likes of Civilization IV. Still, a $15 computer (5W or so power draw) that could run Civilization II via WINE would rock. Sure, I could get an old laptop (with more power draw), but they're a bit clunky and not supported. Okay, I have several old laptops that I could use like that, but would be nice to have a Raspberry Pi with enough power to emulate x86 or an x86 that's as cheap as Raspberry Pi. My Raspberry Pi 4 is powerful enough to run anything that can run on DOSBox, though. Which is in and of itself, pretty awesome.
DOSBox Games that are still worth playing:
Master of Magic (Civilization like city building game, but where you can control the units in battle and use spells. Plus, unique heroes+heroines! Game may be somewhat unbalanced, but I like mopping the floor with the AI. There are much hard difficulties, where the AI cheats. Just like it does in most games. From the Magic menu I believe it was, hold alt and press mgc or magic or pwr or power to auto give yourself and the AI maximum amounts of stuff. There may be a separate one for gold or is included in those or something, but generally you shouldn't need to cheat.)
X-COM: UFO Defense (Turn-based squad-based tactical combat. With minor base and global asset management/protection.)
X-COM: Terror from the Deep (Essentially a standalone expansion that sets most of the maps under water with mostly new enemies and somewhat new weapons/reskins/rebalanced stuff.)
Ultima VII (This is the good Ultima RPG. Play Ultima VII and you've got the Ultima Online experience, but single-player.) Make sure you play the expansion(s) too! Black Forge or something like that and Silver Seed. I think they were released after the initial game. Highly recommend looking up Exult. It's an engine created from scratch to run Ultima VII, natively on modern hardware. It's also ported some Silver Seed features back to the original game. Like, a keyring for all the keys you can collect. Ultima games prior to VII were not very good compared to modern standards of gaming. I.E. controls, etc. are archaic. Ultima VIII was buggy, had nowhere near the map size of Ultima VII, and just kinda sucked, in my opinion. Also, I don't think it runs in DOS, but I could be wrong. Ultima IX: Ascension, was an attempt at a 3D Ultima, pretty sure was a Windows XP game, but maybe Win98 (not a dos game nonetheless). It was a poor attempt, from what I gather. There is a modern "Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues" (Spiritual successor to the Ultima Franchise) game which is okay, but I believe has tons of microtransactions.
OMF2097 (Think Mortal Combat / Street Fighter, but with robots and a space setting.) Unfortunately, One Must Fall Battlegrounds, while it was released. It didn't do well. Also it seemed to be a fair bit more difficult to play and win. XP era game.
That's about it for me as far as DOS games are concerned. Those are still worth playing and generally have a certain amount of replayability.
Traffic Department 2192 (TD:2192), was an interesting RPG, but the game play sucks. In the event you don't mind the game play, it could be worth a one time play through.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 26 2022, @07:43PM
No C&C or C&C:RA? No Beneath a Steel Sky or Day of the Tentacle? No Doom or Blood? Descent or Tie Fighter? Raptor? SimAnt? Lost Vikings? ZZT!? Heresy, I tell you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2022, @02:21PM (1 child)
All the old point-n-click games. Monkey Island etc. SCUMM!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2022, @12:42AM
Agreed. ScummVM [scummvm.org] is the second best piece of software ever written. The first being the original SCUMM interpreter. The project website even has two of my favorite games available for free too.