Re:Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from ...
by danpalmer on Monday February 26, 2024 @05:52AM
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Is there that much negativity towards VMWare? I got the impression they were generally liked by users? Still enterprise software, but good stuff, and not awful about their licencing like some other companies?
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Re:Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from ...
by what-the-grump on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:06AM
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Not really. On the smaller scale there was no reason outside of familiarity to run VMware over hyper-v.
This will be a shift for on-prem deployments. For cloud solutions running VMware in AWS/Azure, unless those renewals go up significantly, most of VMwares mrr is already locked in and the people running these setups generally refuse to learn how the cloud works so itβs a pure lift and shift mentality.
But the pattern begins, broadcom buys VMware does nothing increase prices. Why would any sane client stay around to get VC squeezed.
Re:Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from ...
by boring-alterego on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:52AM
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On prem deployments at my sites swapping to hyper v prior to renewal with VMware. We saw the writing on the wall after what broadcom did to us when they bought Symantec.
Re:Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from ...
by rwmj on Monday February 26, 2024 @06:35AM
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The software always was fairly horrible behind the scenes, albeit with a nice user interface. However I've spent years and years dealing with the sheer awfulness which is VDDK (https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.1.html) which leaves a bitter taste.