Remember: Broadcoms’ (the non-chip part of it) business model is to buy tech companies in long term decline (VMware: check) that have a significant locked in customer base (VMware: check), slash development and support while raising prices.

They extract as much cash out of the decaying corpse as they can, and then discard it.

They were actually fairly open about this to investors when they bought VMware .

That made me wonder why I haven't heard of Computer Associates lately. Turns out they're part of Broadcom now.