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

submitted 6 months ago by ccunning to c/sysadmin

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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 6 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.