“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.
Broadcom "preventing some vendors from selling products to us," AT&T alleges.
bye, vmware
Hello open solutions
Aw, a corporation upset when another corporation does the kind of shit that corporations tend to do with regular people, thanks to the years and years of corporate lobbying allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want.
I almost had a tear.
Not just any corporation, but one that's done this exact kind of thing themselves
There is no good guy here
Broadcom continues to be a bunch of exploitative fucks, surprised pikachu.
As are AT&T.. Surprised pikachu!
Wow. I think the six people on the planet Earth who didn’t see this coming after the buyout last year will be shocked.
I mean we’ve even got a bingo card so to say of what to expect.
"It couldn't possibly happen to me"
I’m rooting for both sides to lose, and for Bane to win.
my previous employer was at work scripting their own workarounds for stuff like DRS and distributed switches so they could drop down to the standard licenses.
Move to open solutions. You buy a Proxmox license and you get it all.
If you don't like Proxmox you could even implement something yourself as it is all open solutions. Libvirt supports live transfers with little effort.
yeah I'm sure that is their long term goal now.
it seems AT&T may be interested in looking for alternatives to VMware?
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/10/19/migrate-from-vmware-to-xcp-ng/
They have a huge amount of machines. If I am remembering correctly it was something like 8,000 physical servers with a lot more VMs.
I used to work for a major telecoms compass until recently, working on their VMWare stack and to say they are a major customer of VMWare is to put it mildly. The cost for VMWare has skyrocketed after the Broadcom deal, so while the team were gearing up for the next gen system utilising more tools from the ESXi stack, now that's entirely abandoned and instead they're tooling up to replace it. That's over 500,000 VMs across a dozen or so datacenters. Broadcom's actions may make them a lot of money in the next few years as their customers are forced to pay this huge hike, but it won't last for long.
I’m very broken up about this