[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[John Dallman]

In article <vil9jg$3ives$3 at dont-email.me>, ldo at nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

> . . . a company which switched from VMware to an open-source 
> alternative as a result of Broadcom's massive price hikes, 
> and encountered an unexpected benefit: the resources consumed 
> by system management overhead on the new product were so much 
> less, they could run more VMs on the same hardware.

That will be nice if it happens, but the pricing is a fully sufficient
reason for moving. The way that some companies are seeing 1,000%, while
others see 300% or 500% makes customers very suspicious that Broadcom are
trying to jack up the price as much as each customer will take. If so,
they aren't very good at that. 

My employer was given a special one-off offer of 500% and went "Hell,
no!"

John