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Broadcom "preventing some vendors from selling products to us," AT&T alleges.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Broadcom continues to be a bunch of exploitative fucks, surprised pikachu.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

As are AT&T.. Surprised pikachu!

[–] lightsblinken 1 points 1 week ago

i've heard they like money?!!!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow. I think the six people on the planet Earth who didn’t see this coming after the buyout last year will be shocked.

I mean we’ve even got a bingo card so to say of what to expect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

"It couldn't possibly happen to me"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aw, a corporation upset when another corporation does the kind of shit that corporations tend to do with regular people, thanks to the years and years of corporate lobbying allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want.

I almost had a tear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Not just any corporation, but one that's done this exact kind of thing themselves

There is no good guy here

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hello open solutions

[–] acosmichippo 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my previous employer was at work scripting their own workarounds for stuff like DRS and distributed switches so they could drop down to the standard licenses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Move to open solutions. You buy a Proxmox license and you get it all.

If you don't like Proxmox you could even implement something yourself as it is all open solutions. Libvirt supports live transfers with little effort.

[–] acosmichippo 1 points 1 week ago

yeah I'm sure that is their long term goal now.

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

I’m rooting for both sides to lose, and for Bane to win.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it seems AT&T may be interested in looking for alternatives to VMware?

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/10/19/migrate-from-vmware-to-xcp-ng/

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

They have a huge amount of machines. If I am remembering correctly it was something like 8,000 physical servers with a lot more VMs.

[–] tabris 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to work for a major telecoms compass until recently, working on their VMWare stack and to say they are a major customer of VMWare is to put it mildly. The cost for VMWare has skyrocketed after the Broadcom deal, so while the team were gearing up for the next gen system utilising more tools from the ESXi stack, now that's entirely abandoned and instead they're tooling up to replace it. That's over 500,000 VMs across a dozen or so datacenters. Broadcom's actions may make them a lot of money in the next few years as their customers are forced to pay this huge hike, but it won't last for long.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Broadcom is not playing the long game. They will milk VMware and then dump it or dissolve the company.

Funny enough Broadcom is not doing so well right now (check there stock)

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

This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't really see a problem with it. It painful short term but has the benefit of breaking up centralization and single points of failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well no. VMware had a monopoly but now they have successfully pushed everyone to other software. Not everyone is using the same alternative so the market is more diverse.

[–] oxomoxo 4 points 1 week ago

My work has used Nutanix since 2012, which is expensive but has been super reliable and was a game changer when they came out years ago. You can load whatever hypervisor and we continued to use VMware for years because “industry standard”. Almost two years ago I realized we could save a ton of money if we just migrated to Acropolis HV, which is their in-house solution that just puts a fancy web interface over KVM. It has been super solid and works basically the same.

Broadcom buys VMware and I end up looking like Nostradamus. It was just lucky timing.

When we are up for renewal I am considering going a step further and moving to Proxmox on 45Drives hardware. We use them for storage and their support for open source has been amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I’m very broken up about this