Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who are Oracle’s customers?

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      MBAs

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have some very big military contracts

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    • pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

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      • Franklin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much

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    • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The CIA

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor…

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    • fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That is … bleak.

        I suspect you are correct.

        RemindMe in 5 years
        #I know that doesn’t work here

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Capitalism is the woooooorst…

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Right? That’s what encouraged me to sail the high seas.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The RIAA special

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Especially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.

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