Sources: the Broadcom-VMware deal happened within two weeks; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan switched his focus to software amid regulatory risks for semiconductor deals
Code named “Project Atlas,” Broadcom's $69bn takeover of VMware was agreed just two weeks after Hock Tan reached out to Michael Dell and visited the PC billionaire at his Austin home to sell the takeover.
“... by acquiring makers of a host of unsexy-but-essential components, then cutting costs and leveraging the company's growing pricing power.” Maybe that's just me, but the 2nd paragraph already sounds a little bit like an antitrust violation. https://www.wsj.com/...
In just 2 weeks, Broadcom's Hock Tan and Michael Dell to agree chipmaker's $69.1bn takeover of VMware, agreed one of the biggest tech deals ever More in @FT on talks codenamed “Project Atlas” plus a history of Tan's dealmaking by @AntoineGara @JFK_America https://www.ft.com/...
It's interesting: as someone deeply (and I mean deeply) involved in the world of computing infrastructure, I never actually run into VMware products. Is it exclusively in “enterprise”? https://twitter.com/...