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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by markus_zhang on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:33AM (#40453916)
Makes sense. Does that mean there is a bigger market for mid-market and below now? Maybe it is too annoying for the big companies to care, but could be lucrative for smaller ones.
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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 @08:44AM (#40454013)
> Does that mean there is a bigger market for mid-market and below now

Nope. Tech forward mid-markets (eg. every single tech startup) are all cloud first, and the legacy mid-markets will go thru MSPs and Resellers to buy these products.

No one likes IT spend. It's a cost center.

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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by markus_zhang on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:55AM (#40454115)
Gotcha, thank you. Yeah, no one likes a cost center...and IT is usually the first to layoff.
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