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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by benterix on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:30AM (#40453890)
> All vendors do this - you can't escape it. This is why companies began leaving for the Cloud - sure it's upfront more expensive, but the negotiations are not as protracted.

I don't get your point here: if you mean the public cloud, it's the synonym of vendor lock-in now.

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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by alephnerd on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:39AM (#40453973)
Everything is vendor lock-in. The difference is negotiations are not as protracted, the muscle to develop a multi-cloud strategy is fairly well built in our industry, AND cloud purchasing offers multiple different styles of billing (eg. subscription driven, multiyear, credit driven, etc) whereas with on-prem you have only a single type of billing model.
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