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Re:Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking by wmf on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:23PM (#28440591)
Once you start charging enterprise prices you can't stop, but public clouds can't pay enterprise prices. It would have appeared to be financial suicide for VMware to move downmarket into public cloud.
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Re:Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking by amluto on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:27PM (#28440615)
Enterprise costs are negotiable. I can easily imagine Google paying VMware several billion per year for a product they want. I can’t imagine Google using ESX — they want a product they fully control.
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Re:Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking by fomine3 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:11AM (#28440842)
I don't believe any bigger cloud providers want to adopt closed unmodifiable products as a core. Windows/Hyper-V is similar from outside but it's in house for Azure(MS).
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Re:Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking by wmf on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:30AM (#28440950)
Even second-tier clouds that can't afford to develop their own hypervisor don't use ESX though. Literally no public clouds use it.
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Re:Intel’s Turnaround and the Future of Chipmaking by tbrownaw on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:26AM (#28441228)
It's a bit less, er, cloudish and self-service than I usually think of cloud as being, but these folks do use VMware:

https://expedient.com/services/cloud/

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