Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

• postnataldrip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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?

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  • umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What platform you migrated to?

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• llamatron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yay capitalism

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  • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      /s

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