Broadcom is doing an excellent job convincing their customers to stop using VMware. Such a good job that at Red Hat we’ve shifted strategies with OpenShift Virtualization to pick up those customers. For the longest time our Virt play was just a stop gap to containers, now it’s a full blown product.
Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That seems unlikely to persuade those people to continue using VMware, but good luck with that business strat Broadcom.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Kudos! I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The strategy, from day-1, was to dump low-tier customers and squeeze the big dogs. They knew this wasn’t a viable long-term plan. Broadcom knew they had captive customers in the large enterprise space who would take years to migrate. They want to rape all they can, cash out and kill the product someday. But hey! As long as they can squeeze, they will do so.
I mean, fuck me, Oracle is still in business and that’s the model Broadcom is going for.
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah. Let’s not get started on fucking Oracle. We’ll be here all day. Or year, possibly.