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They buy companies like VMWare and Computer-Associate, gut them and jack the price until they only have captive consumers from the fortune 500.





CA and VMWare were already dead on acquisition.

Splunk+Datadog and AWS+Nutanix+Cohesity respectively ate much of CA and VMWare's marketshare.




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