Broadcom wants to speed up antitrust approval from the European Union on its $61 billion VMware acquisition.
Apparently, it is using market rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominance to claim that the move is necessary to create more competition in the cloud market.
The European Commission’s four-month-long second phase investigation and for it to go to phase two, there has to be a real competition problem – horizontal, vertical, foreclosure risk. Broadcom argues that with the big names in the market, its buy out is nothing to worry about.
After the news broke it was met with uncertainty among some VMware partners who were left with mixed feelings and were concerned it might harm the UK channel.
