The self-created risk in Broadcom’s big VMware kiss-off

Opinion It looked like the most cynical corporate move of the last couple of years, at least in IT. A year and a half after it was announced, so it has proved to be. Broadcom’s $61 billion buyout of VMware was expected to follow a familiar formula – price hikes, product abandonment, complete ecosystem devastation – and the creation of two classes of people.

The first class? Rich people who got a lot richer. The second? Anyone not aligned with the vision of “large enterprise only”…