[Info-vax] License policies

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/13/2023 6:58 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 13/12/2023 20:39, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/13/2023 12:04 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 13/12/2023 15:07, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>>> On 12/13/23 07:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> The VMware ecosystem is simply too large for that to
>>>>> ever be a serious possibility.
>>>>
>>>> I feel like the same could have been said about DEC at one time.
>>>>
>>>> So maybe it could be said about VMware at some time in the future?
>>>
>>> They have recently been acquired by Broadcom
>>
>> Yep.
>>
>> They paid 61 B$ or 69 B$ for VMWare.
>>
>> That is a lot of money.
> 
> Don't know if it has happened, but there were rumours of loads of 
> companies dropping VMware. For what? KVM/QEMU?

I have not heard about many dropping ESXi. But growth is elsewhere.

A large part of workload is in AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI today. And they don't
pay for VMWare (AWS use custom Xen, Azure use Hyper-V, GCP use KVM,
OCI use KVM).

A large part of workload are not deployed in VM's but
in containers today - and a significant part of that is
k8s on bare metal not k8s on VM (there are still a lot
of k8s on VM though).

For the classic in own data center VM then I think it is
still: MS shop => Hyper-V, total open source centric => KVM,
everybody else => ESXi.

But if "the classic in own data center VM" market share
has dropped from 95% til 25% then ...

Arne