...VMW's license management and record-keeping are absolutely abysmal. Even the low end outsourcing companies like HCL and Tata could run technology better than VMW Licensing. Good luck trying to document what a sizable customer owns or used to own down to the license key level. I wonder if a law firm could file a class action on behalf of VMW's customers for their ineptitude in keeping records.
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Better “didn’t have phone home” they are going to get a direct line soon.
Some of us just help others sail the 7 seas ARG
The fact that vCenter and the other products did not have "phone home" licensing
built into their core for the last 12-15 years s
The vcenter team, though large and profitable, is largely filled with incompetence from the top to bottom. Ask how much the principle engineer for that product has actually written. Can that person even write code at all, or just talk and complain to HR when their BS is called-out.
The fact that vCenter and the other products did not have "phone home" licensing built into their core for the last 12-15 years shows you just how inept the company's senior leadership was.
Which is why those vSphere 8 keys 'leaked' on GitHub work and nobody can do anything about it.
Isn’t HCL co owned by Broadcom?
The fact that vCenter and the other products did not have "phone home" licensing built into their core for the last 12-15 years shows you just how inept the company's senior leadership was. I know multiple small software companies that were less than 1/100th the size of VMW that had phone home licensing built into their core all the way back to the late 90's. No excuse for the money that VMW leadership left on the table, not to mention the thousands of man-hours lost each year to manual license tracking and reporting.
100% agree. I don’t think customers want to file lawsuit. Customers take advantage of that and use more than they buy. And VMW has no true picture of what and how much is consumed. If Hock can just fix that part by either enforcing or selling in a way that it’s pointless to cheat then BC will make lot more money. Lot of money is left on table. Products need to change to have consumption info collected and transmitted natively not only for product features but licensing enforcement.
VMW employees on the front line with customers know this pain all too well.