Reflecting on VMware’s past, present, and future given the Broadcom acquisition, Chris’ distaste for cake, and concluding WSL on Windows Server is silly.

Broadcom's $61 billion takeover of VMware 

Ned and Chris analyze Broadcom's acquisition of VMware for an astounding $61 billion, a move that has the tech industry buzzing. They discuss the potential impacts on VMware's innovation and product development, questioning whether it will continue to innovate or start to fall behind. Alongside this major news, they also touch on recent tech updates from Microsoft, a record-breaking supercomputer built by AMD, and a Microsoft Office security issue that could allow hackers access.

This is a rebroadcast of this episode: https://chaoslever.com/cl-05312022/

Links:

• Broadcom to buy VMware? Smell test failed
  • Wow I was wrong fast!
• Email to employees from the CEO
• Broadcom investor presentation
• Strategy for Broadcom from a 2021 slide deck shows they are focused on top 600 customers. Hope you’re one of those!
• Brian Madden has feeling that are worth reading
• Microsoft Build Stuff I Care About
• An AMD-powered supercomputer breaks the exascale barrier for the first time
• Microsoft Office security vulnerability identified after Microsoft decided it wasn’t a problem
  • There are other mitigations you can enact right now that include deregistering the msdt protocol