[Info-vax] VSI Announces Initial Focus on Hypervisor Support for OpenVMS on x86

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-06-01, plugh <jchimene at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 2:21:46 PM UTC-7, Rich Jordan wrote:
>> 
>> I was on vacation but today at work I was told that Broadcom had bought VMWare and they plan to make it a subscription to run product as quickly as they can. 
>> 
>> Wonder how that will impact. Suddenly running a subscription VMS on VMWare might (might! I don't know the prices) be getting more costly.
>
> The crapification of computing technology continues unabated. Broadcom is such a bottom-feeder they bought CA. According to Broadcom, VMWare has too many customers. Broadcom's publicly stated intention (via El Reg) is to mine the customer base, extracting the most valuable veins. Those chumps^H customers are so locked-in to VMWare, they won't be able to switch. If they're also using VMS, cost increases are baked-in as just another cost-of-business to be passed on the taxpayer. For the rest, it's a reminder of why CA grew big enough to be a meal for Broadcom. They can always switch to another hypervisor! 
> "This port should be no problem, since their computers as the same color as ours."

Not to worry. You can just ask Broadcom for a _full_ datasheet when
you run into problems...

Simon.

PS: In fairness, it's not just them. Ever tried getting a full datasheet
out of FTDI (for example) ?

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