VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
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Threatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
The RIAA special
It's also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle's customers?
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I'm forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn't it?
Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy
They have some very big military contracts
I think it had something to do with Broadcom wanting to go for a few big customers and don't want to deal with the small fry anymore.
Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor...
Broadcom knows they bought a dying platform. Their strategy is to isolate the customers incapable of ever migrating and charge them as close to near bankruptcy as possible. They’ll get their initial return on investment in under 5 years and then eventually just let VMware die because new businesses that are still nimble all moved to other platforms anyway. They’ll hit Lotto tickets with a few whales and keep 5-10 devs on to patch stuff for those whales and print 100-1000x return on costs in perpetuity.
That is ... bleak.
I suspect you are correct.
RemindMe in 5 years
#I know that doesn't work hereI think I've seen people using this on Lemmy, but I'm not sure if it works: https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
You mean in 3.5 years because they purchased VMWare in 2023 and according to analysts they're already well on their way to recovering and profiting from the 61 billion dollar merger
(And that god that bot doesn’t work here)
Capitalism is the woooooorst...
Right? That's what encouraged me to sail the high seas.