Broadcom didn’t need to reinvent the mainframe. It just …

Many large enterprises and large organizations still have a mainframe at their heart, restricting their ability to innovate and locking them into their suppliers.

Now, what would happen if hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide were strapped into a similar technological straitjacket?

That could just be what Broadcom has pulled off with its acquisition of VMware. The deal finally closed at the end of last year, but nervous tech leaders had already woken up to just how beholden to…