Comments on: Broadcom Axes VMware Perpetual Licenses Starting the Journey of Increasing Revenue

By: space waves

space waves — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:59:49 +0000

I deeply value the support and expertise you have offered; I am immensely thankful. I express my sincere appreciation for your immense assistance and wide range of expertise.

By: space waves

space waves — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:57:54 +0000

I was on a workstation license/version that was a few years old, but was holding off on upgrading to see what would happen. Looks like I am going open source.

By: spuwho

spuwho — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:15:04 +0000

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

By: spuwho

spuwho — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:09:25 +0000

Yes, Broadcom is the new devil. Long timers will remember that Novell tried to port NetWare to Unix System V and all of those Novell admins and VAR’s screamed bloody murder. So Novell relented and it died.

Peter Norton tried to move all of their tools to Windows (too late) and they got sold to Symantec (who also folded to Broadcom)

Word Perfect didn’t think they had to change anything until it was too late. They ended up at Corel then died.

There will always be an alternate to VMWare, and probably the most likely impact is all of the VMWare talent will be discarded and develop a new virtualization product.

By: spuwho

spuwho — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:02:27 +0000

Look for a massive wave of consolidation in the VMWare VAR sector as all of them have to re-apply. VMWare has already said if you don’t sell at least $500k of product, you won’t get accepted, so all of theses small VAR’s are going to be merging to get something back.

By: Parallax

Parallax — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:39:36 +0000

If you have to continue with VMware but don’t like the new pricing, check out AVS on Azure.