Did they acquire also BMC?

Good information, Broadcom is a playa, lots and lots of acquisitions! (a quick google search turns up a very eventful history for Broadcom)

> From personal experience, executives and leadership who started off in the electronics and hardware industry are much more vicious and cutthroat than their peers who started in software.

Only The Paranoid Survive is quite a name for a management book. It implies surviving in the world you are speaking about.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66863.Only_the_Paranoid_...