[remus]

It does seem an odd move. No doubt they're going to milk existing customers for everything they're worth, but they're going to create a generation of people who will never buy anything from them ever again. That guy who's busting his balls to migrate off VMWare because of the price hike is gonna be the CTO in 10 years time, and when he's making that 10m USD purchasing decision they're gonna stay well away from anything with the name Broadcom on it.

[ternaryoperator]

Pshaw! Similar behavior by Oracle has not diminished its footprint nor its sales.

[hilariously]

I dont think that's true, a lot of the database market that exists is basically "we're not oracle but we did a thing they can also do for much cheaper"

[toyg]

It has. Which is why they were forced to turn to acquisitions to grow - they can only buy other people's customers, not attract new ones.

[Panzer04]

That's why broadcom bought the company he went with instead.