I think it had something to do with Broadcom wanting to go for a few big customers and don’t want to deal with the small fry anymore.
Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom
Gork@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Threatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor…
fishpen0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Broadcom knows they bought a dying platform. Their strategy is to isolate the customers incapable of ever migrating and charge them as close to near bankruptcy as possible. They’ll get their initial return on investment in under 5 years and then eventually just let VMware die because new businesses that are still nimble all moved to other platforms anyway. They’ll hit Lotto tickets with a few whales and keep 5-10 devs on to patch stuff for those whales and print 100-1000x return on costs in perpetuity.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
That is … bleak.
I suspect you are correct.
RemindMe in 5 years
#I know that doesn’t work hereCocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Capitalism is the woooooorst…
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a valid business strategy to kick your low-paying customers to the curb and focus on the big spenders. Did the same with my little PC business back in the day. The small fry cost shitloads to support and are generally more bitchy.
But HOLY shit did Broadcom kick 'em down. I’ve never seen such an in-your-face business move to squeeze the cash cow as hard as possible, tank the company, grab the money and run.
People can say, and have been from day-1, “I’ll never use their shit again!” That’s fine with Broadcom, it’s literally their plan.
Geodad@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Right? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The RIAA special
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Especially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 3 weeks ago
It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
tabular@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who are Oracle’s customers?
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
MBAs
pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
Franklin@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
The CIA
lmfamao@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Project Oracle babyyyy
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
They have some very big military contracts