Broadcom Axes VMware Perpetual Licenses Starting the Journey of Increasing Revenue. So VMWare is finally following in the footsteps of AWS and Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, HPE and the rest of the biggest SW and HW tech mfgs. Is this the downfall and death of VMware. Will captive customers just migrate to Proxmox or hyperscalers?
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I think it’s funny when people post items like this as “news”…. This has been such a long time coming… regardless of BC.
This is key. If your running Perpetual and still want that. Go through an OEM.
If your happy with Sub, take advantage of the low pricing now. Sure in 2 years it will not be as cheap. As by then the majority will be on Sub.
Proxmox is free dawg
Proxmox is subscription based, why they getting so much coverage.
It is good, as long as OEM won't be allowed to sell perpetual either
It needs/needed to happen for years now. The swing between a perpetual license divided by 36 and a subscription, however, pre-Broadcom, was nuts. Often the payback was <1yr instead of the 3-4 years that it should be to make subscription attractive.
Personally, I avoid subscriptions like the plague, but, this is the way the market is going and having a perpetual and subscription option in the market at wildly different costs was a huge mistake for VMware, it's good to see that mistake finally being fixed.