[Info-vax] License policies

[David Wade]

On 13/12/2023 13:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-12-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> I am sure most people remember the discussion about the changes to
>> VMS licenses.
>>
>> Now VMWare licenses get changed similar:
>>
>> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/broadcom-ends-vmware-perpetual-license-sales-testing-customers-and-partners/
>>

That can be a serious problem for UK government orgs that use it. 
Perpetual licences can be bought out of capital funds and so may be 
counted as an investment and written down over time, whereas time 
limited usually have to be bought out of recurrent budgets, which may 
vanish...


> 
> The difference is that the VMware people don't have to worry about the
> possibility of their supplier suddenly going bust and having their own
> operations suddenly stopping because no-one acquired VMware after the
> company went bust. The VMware ecosystem is simply too large for that to
> ever be a serious possibility.
> 
> Simon.
> 

Dave