[Info-vax] VMWARE/ESXi Linux

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-12-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/4/2024 8:20 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute
>> contempt towards their users ?
>
> I am expecting companies to attempt to maximize profit.
>
> That expectation tend to minimize disappointment.  :-)
>
> Question is of course whether Broadcom is maximizing profit!
>
> The pricing strategy seems to be to cash in now and not worry about
> long term as opposed to try and setup a long term steady income.
>
> Given the move to containers and cloud then I actually think that it may 
> be a profit maximizing strategy. With a shrinking market then the value
> of long term is not so big.
>
> But that raises another question: why did they pay so much? The price
> hikes may be profit maximizing, but it will not bring in what they paid
> for VMWare.
>

I wonder if their level of arrogance exceeded their level of competence ?

>   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 guy:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
>

Yes. I wonder how much more of this the US is in for over the next 4 years. :-(

Simon.

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