News Chipmaker Broadcom to buy VMware in $61 bln deal

[XIII]

This is a move (and price) I did not expect:

Chipmaker Broadcom to buy VMware in $61 bln deal

Broadcom Inc said on Thursday it will acquire cloud computing company VMware Inc in a $61 billion cash-and stock deal, the chipmaker's biggest and boldest bid to diversify its business into enterprise software.

www.reuters.com

 

[ColinTaylor]

This is a move (and price) I did not expect:

Me neither. I had check the date wasn't 1st April.

 

[RMerlin]

The rumour first appeared a few days ago, at that time they said they weren't anywhere close to an agreement. Weird how quickly that changed.

 

[itpp20]

I expect we can expect more undisclosed vulnerabilities...

 

[aex.perez]

At $61B oddly close to the $67B Dell paid for EMC/VMware (and the rest of the pieces and parts) back in 2015