As a former employee, my outlook for VMW was already grim. Given Broadcom's history of acquisitions...this will probably not end particularly well for VMW as a company, and almost certainly will be bad for employees. Very glad I bailed out right after Pat Gelsinger did.
Are there any good examples of products acquired that then thrived or even really continued to do reasonably well?
It seems more common for a product to be acquired and then languish as the people who care about it leave or are forced out. For example: the Primavera scheduling tool has mostly languished since being acquired by Oracle.
I guess I meant to specify software. I can think of a few places where hardware products got traction under new ownership. The problem seems to be one that only afflicts software products.
There's a reason Amazon/Google and the other major providers tend to push their availability zones to the edge. It's because this matters. You can't always cache in the background especially for multimedia content. It's simply too heavy.
Not all content providers will be able to run the infrastructure that Google does, which is why it makes sense for cloud service providers to do the same.
