[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[John Dallman]

In article <memo.20240327143819.1408P at jgd.cix.co.uk>, jgd at cix.co.uk (John
Dallman) wrote:

> * QEMU seems to be pretty complex, or at least, ill-documented.
> * VirtualBox is from Oracle, and thus subject to corporate whims. 
> * VMware is from Broadcom, whose swingeing price rises are putting 
>   everyone off the product.
> 
> My employers are large-scale users of VMware, but the price rises 
> have them looking hard at alternatives. 

They've concluded that VMware is not worth the money Broadcom want for it
and are switching to a KVM-based solution. 

Broadcom seem to believe they have something uniquely capable, and the
market will happily absorb huge price rises. They are gradually being
shown this is not the case. Their special one-off offer to us was only a
5x price increase for one year, plus steep rises after that. 

We're a 25k people company, but only a couple of hundred TechOps staff
create or maintain VMs themselves. Since the Broadcom price increase was
more than the total annual salaries and costs of those people, the
decision to switch was pretty easy. 

Everyone else just uses VMs, and that's the same whatever vitalisation
they're running on. 

VSI should probably put another vitalisation supplier at the head of the
supported list. 

John