[Info-vax] License policies

[Dan Cross]

In article <uldhrl$12f61$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 12/13/2023 6:58 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 13/12/2023 20:39, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2023 12:04 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>>> On 13/12/2023 15:07, Grant Taylor wrote:
>>>>> On 12/13/23 07:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>> The VMware ecosystem is simply too large for that to
>>>>>> ever be a serious possibility.
>>>>>
>>>>> I feel like the same could have been said about DEC at one time.
>>>>>
>>>>> So maybe it could be said about VMware at some time in the future?
>>>>
>>>> They have recently been acquired by Broadcom
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>> They paid 61 B$ 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).

AWS is also (in fact, mostly) KVM/Nitro these days.  They run
Xen nested under KVM in lots of instances.

	- Dan C.