Summary Bullets:
• Approved in the EU: The European Commission has granted approval for the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom.
• Caution is Warranted: Enterprises should be cautious about commitments to VMware until at least a year after the acquisition completes.
On July 12, 2023 the European Commission (EC) approved Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware for the tune of around $61 billion. The main concern on the part of the EC was that Broadcom’s ownership of VMware and its nearly omnipresent server virtualization software could create interoperability issues in the Fibre Channel host bus adapter (FC HBA) and Ethernet network interface card (NIC) markets. The deal gives assurances to Broadcom’s sole rival in the FC HBA market, Marvell Technology, as well as access to interoperability tools it needs.
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