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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by red-iron-pine on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:53PM (#40457765)
I was an infrastructure architect at a F50, and I'm sure they'd have been quite sensitive to the changes. Like, once we got a confirmation of new pricing, the day after we're kicking off a Discovery process to find and cost out some alternatives.

They were, and I'm guessing still are, also very resistant to SaaS / IaaS plays, for a lot of (arguably) good reasons, and I'm not sure what they'd go with as an alternative. OpenShift? Raw dog some DIY docker clusters?

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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by p_l on Friday May 24, 2024 @01:51AM (#40463217)
Probably various integrators? Oxide misses some critical features in networking right now but I suspect it would a very tempting option for many once they added support for the typical unholy mess that are vlans connected to vmware networks.

I don't know where exactly in spending bracket my current $DAYJOB fits, but I did hear both about negotiating prices with Broadcom and grumbles of looking for replacement including accelerating movement to AWS where possible.

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