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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by downrightmike on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:54PM (#20773741)
"Financial Engineering" Why make anything anymore when you can do tricks with, and for money?
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by grkvlt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:19PM (#20774281)
"Software Engineering" Why make anything anymore when you can do tricks with ones and zeroes, for money?
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by geodel on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:24AM (#20777276)
They do make stuff. Idea is to make next generation software worse than previous generation. Make money by fiddling with those agile JIRA/Storyboards and endless bug fixing.
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by marketgod on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:38PM (#20773925)
I don't know if this was financial engineering because Dell bought EMC/VMWare but it was the smaller company, so this is a way to just increase the ownership they have rather than take cash out of the company which they use to make purchases. I'm not a FA expert, only TA, but that's my thought here.
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