The European Commission has filed a statement of objections regarding Broadcom's proposed purchase of VMware, which the EC said may be harmful to competition. said it was concerned that following the merger Broadcom could screw over suppliers of NICs, fiber channel host bus adapters, and network storage adapters that interoperate with VMware's hypervisor stack, "by delaying or degrading" those vendors' access to that virtualization software. " The spokesperson said the company had already received merger clearance to acquire VMware in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa