'Bad news for customers' - VMware partners left with mixed feelings over potential Broadcom deal

VMware partners have spoken to CRN about Broadcom’s potential $60bn acquisition of the cloud computing company

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'Bad news for customers' - VMware partners left with mixed feelings over potential Broadcom deal

"Interesting" and "bad news for customers" - this is how some VMware partners are feeling about Broadcom's potential $60bn acquisition of the virtualisation vendor. Multiple reports surfaced on ...

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