Electronic Hardware companies typically will have some software offerings to help boost their hardware businesses as well as help “lock in” their customers to their hardware. Some notable examples of businesses doing this would be Nvidia and their CUDA software stack, Apple and their OSs.
These software offerings can make it difficult to switch to a different hardware vendor that might be cheaper or maybe have different offerings. This difficultly happens because it would cost both time and money to switch to using the new software.
With all that, it is common for hardware companies to buy software companies to increase their software offerings to try and get more hardware sales. It also isn’t uncommon that down the road that future development on the software they just bought to be limited to only their software.
So tech companies are looking for other alternatives to VMware now in case Broadcom decides locks VMware to operate only on their hardware.
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