🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-08-27
Exploring changes in the VMware community, hot takes on funds, funding, M&A, and the evolving cloud landscape.
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First… an interesting post arrived from VMworld. For perspective, my first VMworld experience was in 2010 and the community I met there would alter the course of my career for the next decade.
I was even a one time vExpert in 2013 within the massive VMware community aka vCommunity… and since then, well, things have changed. Things have changed — drastically.
Mourning Our vCommunity: Navigating Grief After the Broadcom Acquisition
How has the Broadcom acquisition impacted the vCommunity? I think most of us are still in mourning. Why it's important to grieve this loss and what comes next..
And now, back to our regular Hot Takes Tuesday…