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“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It is the point, this is exactly what Broadcom does.

[–] postnataldrip 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yup, this is on form for them. This isn't the first product they've done it to and surely won't be the last.

The moment the news broke we started migration planning, a short while later their new pricing came through and immediately justified the project spend. Tens of thousands of VMs migrated, a ton of labour, and even some hardware refreshes thrown in - and still cheaper than renewing, by a looong shot.

Shame, I liked VMware.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unfortunately our director just doesn't pay attention to these things. When I try to bring them to him, suggest "hey this looks very bad, maybe we should plan on something now", he brushes it off. Same thing happened when I pointed out how much VMWare we use and that it would be good to start a transition, or at least start shopping around for some alternatives to consider.

Now like a year later he's only just starting to mutter stuff about Hyper-V.

Which just feels like...Hyper-V is fine I guess, but god damn, could we at least try not to sink further into Microsoft quicksand? There's better options out there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What platform your company (I assume) migrated to?

[–] yggstyle 2 points 2 months ago

Probably Xen. Maybe proxmox. Both had tools to assist with migration.

[–] Evotech 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Standard private equity form behavior

The fact that it's called Broadcom at all... They just bought the company a while back and started using the brand because it's recognizable in the tech industry. It's not really Broadcom, just a shell.

[–] llamatron 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yay capitalism

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

What you're seeing is the best economic system ever created in action