[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-12-02, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> 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!"
>

Are you sure your employer's response was not a little more Anglo-Saxon
in nature ? :-)

On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute
contempt towards their users ? It reminds me of the person who took over
supply of a vital medical drug in the US a few years ago and promptly
increased the price massively because the users of the drug where a capture
market that _needed_ to buy the drug.

This is so blatant by Broadcom, I'm surprised the EU has not got more
seriously involved.

Simon.

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