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VMware Kills Off 56 Products (www.thestack.technology)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Rixster 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What the flying fuck?

[–] baldturkeyleg 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. This is what happens when Broadcom shows up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The good ol' hack & slash, 80's style

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit.

We've invested heavily in vSAN over the past few years, and use or are looking at a few of those tools. I guess 'were looking at' is a better term now.

You had a good run, VMware, but apparently it's fucking over now.

[–] grayman 1 points 9 months ago

As soon as the purchase was made public the fortune 50 company I work for ran as fast as possible to VARs looking for alternatives. It will take us 5 years to migrate off, but I've never seen such a universal desire to jump to another product inside a company this large. Broadcom is universally known to do nothing but milk and kill what they aquire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168

These products are not being scrapped, they're ending perpetual licensing. Broadcom wants all customers under a subscription model to milk the most money out of them.