I just left one of the UK’s largest VMWare customers, in a team working directly on VSphere and ESXI products. The team was just starting to tool up for a new internal project to manage VMs within the company using some of the newer features in these tools. We had well over 1 million VMs across more than a dozen datacenters. The cost of running this is expected to go up by 30 times or more.
While it’s going to take some time, they’re now looking at migrating to a different solution. So Broadcom are going to get their extra pay for a while, but not forever.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Not by next quarter. By the time that happens, this set of execs will be already at the next company.
bluGill@kbin.social 2 months ago
Often execs stick around longer than that.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Even if they do, they get bonuses for short term stock gain, not long term stuff. If the going gets bad, they totally do bail. Some companies - khm Reddit khm - even bring in execs just to take a fall when that happens, only for the same guys who set the problem up to take back the reins after the fallout.
bluGill@kbin.social 2 months ago
They generally have a large part of their net worth in company stock and are getting options. Thus long term matters.