Broadcom has announced a merger with CA Technologies, the once infamous Computer Associates, which is embedded in the mainframe era, which has flat revenues, and which doesn’t make chips at all. Broadcom CEO, Hock Tan, will have a lot of explaining to do to make this deal work – it is a million miles from the deal he sought in buying Qualcomm, and unless there is some unholy marriage between agile development and DevOps and chip architectures, he is paying 4.5 times revenues for a dying company from the last century. CA is described as one of the world’s leading providers of information technology management software – it came out of the ancient art of Systems Management, back when hardware…