VMware reportedly probed by Japanese anti-monopoly cops

Japan's Fair Trade Commission, the nation's anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware's software licensing practices. Several Japanese media outlets today reported that on Wednesday authorities visited the Tokyo office of VMware's owner, Broadcom, to seek evidence of whether the giant corp has …

[Mishak]

"its bundles quickly pay for themselves"

Not if you only use some of them though - kind of like the sellers on Amazon who sell packs of "things" when you only need one...

[mevets]

won't happen.

By the time it gets to court, Broadcom will have wound down the business.

A customer-less company cannot be a monopoly.

[Alan Brown]

Re: won't happen.

Perhaps Japanese investigators will move faster than US/EU ones

[Donn Bly]

Their statement that sales of the bundles have exceeded expectations can be seen as an admission that they didn't expect to actually sell any

[Anonymous Coward]

How to Kill a good product.

Greed.

Funny- that CCP are into capitalism, not funny- they try it like a dictatorship, funny- that unlike a dictatorship, companies (outside of CCP) can dump it for a different product.

[Anonymous Coward]

I was once proud to work at VMware. It was quite inefficient and badly run in some ways but it produced something customers wanted to buy, it treated employees better than average, and it made a profit.

But not enough of a profit to stop it being targeted by Broadcom, which has sacked many of the employees, made a lot of the ones still there unhappy, alienated its customers, but delighted Wall Street. Late model capitalism is basically broken.