[kjellsbells]

Can someone ELI5 what Broadcom hoped to do with VMware? And ideally non-snarkily. I mean, what was the idea behind tying a silicon company to a...I dunno, enterprise virtualization and networking company? I dont get it. And what is the thinking behind killing off the products? What remaining product are they trying to save?

Any takers?

[InsomniacL]

First, VMWare isn't so much killing off the products, they are changing how you buy them.

VMWare has many different products, most of them very good but they don't have massive uptake.

When VMWare gets a new customer they might buy a handful of VMWares products, but not 50+.

So Broadcom has said, lets stop selling them individually, you can only buy big bundles on a subscription basis.

[egberts1]

"how you buy them": nope, not even that.