Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 year agoIt is the point, this is exactly what Broadcom does.
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.
Unfortunately our director just doesn’t pay attention to these things and when I try to bring them to him, suggest “hey we use a lot of VMware and this looks very bad, maybe we should plan on something now” he brushes it off.
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?
What platform you migrated to?
Probably Xen. Maybe proxmox. Both had tools to assist with migration.
Yay capitalism
What you’re seeing is the best economic system ever created in action
/s
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Standard private equity form behavior
The fact that it’s called Verizontat 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.