Broadcom tells partner negotiating for charity 'VMware is not for everybody'

“The statement that came back to me from Broadcom was, ‘We appreciate that with these changes VMware is not for everybody,’” says Tom Smyth, head of technical solutions as Misco. “Everyone else can use it. Broadcom is not going to gear its decisions towards them anymore. … I can appreciate that. I can respect their decisions. It’s not something I would do personally.”

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Broadcom tells partner negotiating for charity 'VMware is not for everybody'

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready called out Broadcom for "profit harvesting" a hospital charity during his mainstage keynote at his recent partner show, a story so extraordinary CRN tracked down the ...

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