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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by jjirsa on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:58PM (#20774412)
When I think of business agility and ability to keep up with a fast moving industry, I think Dell/VMWare.
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by badrabbit on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:30PM (#20784553)
Hey,I didn't know VMWare had a bad rep. Someone else also made a similar sarcastic comment.

Even if it was Oracle or IBM, big money solves some problems.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by jjirsa on Saturday August 24, 2019 @03:20AM (#20785781)
Oracle and IBM are better known for killing things they acquire than enhancing them. The money doesn't outweigh the executive overhead.

And it's not that vmware is bad, it's that they're big, enterprise'y, and slow. They'll make their money selling VM management software to companies that can't adapt to the cloud. But that's what they do - they make their money selling software to companies that can't adapt.

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by thunderthunder on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:03AM (#20775129)
Haha
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