Comments on: VMware Updates its EOA Plan Providing Guidance for Some Subscription Transition https://www.servethehome.com/vmware-updates-its-eoa-plan-providing-guidance-for-some-subscription-transition-broadcom/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:26:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Kyle https://www.servethehome.com/vmware-updates-its-eoa-plan-providing-guidance-for-some-subscription-transition-broadcom/#comment-518585 Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:26:33 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75626#comment-518585 @Brenda: VMware has been on a downward slope for a few years before this buyout. They started price hikes long before it as well. They even discontinued free licensing to educational institutions via the VMware Academic Resources program. This was a critical error that sacrificed long-term viability for short-term gains. I know of few institutions that had to remove VMware from their curriculum because the new cost of this program was simply too expensive.
Software used at educational institutions influences the workforce. Familiarity with the tools makes them more likely to employ them in their future projects.
Microsoft understands that and has been giving out their software basically for free. In fact they used to charge for their educational offering, but changed recently to making it free of charge (Azure Dev Tools for Teaching).

]]> By: Brenda Douglas https://www.servethehome.com/vmware-updates-its-eoa-plan-providing-guidance-for-some-subscription-transition-broadcom/#comment-518468 Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:55:56 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75626#comment-518468 Hi,

Please don’t call this VMware…this is broadcom. Legacy VMware didn’t treat customers like this.

]]> By: Claus https://www.servethehome.com/vmware-updates-its-eoa-plan-providing-guidance-for-some-subscription-transition-broadcom/#comment-518331 Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:26:40 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75626#comment-518331 Have to agree with Scott here. SMB are by no means away from esxi – actually it’s quite the opposite thing – at least in most parts of europe. Certain german-speaking countris may have a quite strong proxmox following, but scandinavia is almost entirely vmware country with only a very few hyper-v and even fewer Xenserver.

]]> By: Scott Brooke https://www.servethehome.com/vmware-updates-its-eoa-plan-providing-guidance-for-some-subscription-transition-broadcom/#comment-518161 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:13:10 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=75626#comment-518161 I’m not sure where you get the impression that most small customers have moved away from it. For a variety of reasons we have many clients still on ESXi, including Horizon View footprints. Proxmox and Citrix are not viable options for a lot of smaller customers that are struggling just to manage VMWare solutions. Everyone is now scrambling to figure out alternatives.

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