Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more ‘choice’ – to buy from Symantec or CA
Broadcom has made its first public comment in weeks about its plans for VMware, should the surprise $61 billion acquisition proceed as planned, and has prioritized retaining VMware’s engineers to preserve the virtualization giant’s innovation capabilities. The outline of Broadcom’s plans appeared in a Wednesday blog post by Broadcom Software president Tom Krause. The post opens with blandishments about Broadcom meeting with VMware customers “to tell them more about how this combination will deliver compelling benefits to them.”
Those benefits center on “greater choice and flexibility to build, run, manage, connect and protect traditional and modern applications at scale across diversified, distributed environments.”
Krause’s definition of “choice” hinges on the intention that Broadcom Software’s existing businesses – Symantec and CA – will operate under the VMware name once the deal is done. VMware customers will therefore be able to choose Symantec and CA products. VMware customers are, it should be noted, free to make that choice today. Krause added that the combination of VMware and Broadcom software will “help enterprises build, manage and secure a wide variety of applications – from mainframe to client server to cloud-native via Kubernetes – and more securely deliver amazing end user experiences to any device anywhere.”
That’s a slightly stronger statement, as the combined Broadcom Software and VMware will indeed have expertise on many platforms.
