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VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” (arstechnica.com)

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Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds

300 director-level IT workers making VMware decisions were questioned.

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[–] slazer2au 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bit late, the path is already there with Azure Arc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The problem is what happens if they pull a VMware. They could just bump up licensing costs so that you end up spending the same as you would to be in the cloud

[–] slazer2au 1 points 5 months ago

MS is currently going through some legal battles in the EU about unfair pricing so it will be interesting how that turns out.