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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] uid0gid0 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Broadcom used to be a worthwhile company, but now their whole M.O. seems to be buying up mature solutions and price-gouging the companies that rely on those solutions. They sell off the parts they can't price gouge with and then the solutions stagnate. They did it with CA, and again with Symantec, and now it's VMware's turn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Broadcom's business was making chips and this is a horizontal move into new territory. Baffling.