Explore VMware intends to use the billion dollars a year Broadcom has promised to add to its R&D budget to simplify and extend its platform, to ease upgrades, and encourage users to adopt more of its stack.
The Register learned of those plans today at VMware’s Explore conference in Las Vegas, where the virtualization outfit’s president Sumit Dhawan told us the money from Broadcom – which is in the process of acquiring VMware for $60 billion-plus – will be spent on making his…