“They were very, very mature companies with little prospect of growth in the categories they were in, and the revenue was mostly focused on 400 or so customers,” he said at the time.
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CA - the company where software went to die
I used to work at CA before acquisition and some of my colleagues are still there in Broadcom. Can't wait to start working on the CA products I led once again! :D
Either way, pile VMware on the heap of once great companies.
VMware is the new Computer Associates
I think a more apt description would be that Broadcom is the new computer associates, and VMware is the maker of SuperCalc.
https://www.company-histories.com/Computer-Associates-International-Inc-Company-History.html
VMware is the new Computer Associates
And Broadcom wants to buy us for the revenue stream associated with that subset of customers.
Meaning
VMware = is a mature company with little prospect of growth in the category they’re in (Saas) with revenue growth coming from a subset of customers.
meaning ?