VMware admits sweeping Broadcom changes are worrying customers
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/vmware-admits-sweeping-broadcom-changes-are-worrying-customers/
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'Carbon Black customers better get ready to start paying 3x (if they are lucky) their current rates.'
Total FUD
Well, Carbon Black customers better get ready to start paying 3x (if they are lucky) their current rates.
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Not really. Many biz, especially smaller, less than 3500 core installations are now toast, customers aren’t going to by 2x to 10x more. If your bill of $50k went to half a mil, you would be looking for alternatives as well.
VMware is the new mainframe
"i work for a large VAR and it's full on panic with customers. Almost every customer I talk to wants to evaluate VMware alternatives."
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Plan is simple:
- Minimally support the most profitable products
- raise prices
- have less employees and customers to extract profit.
Don’t like it? The door is over there….
Caution the supreme leader and there will be retribution.
In a year after VMware has been Hock’d, he will move on to eat another company.
Many have not forgotten how Broadcom acquired CA technologies for $18B and blew it away.
'I'll be honest, the migration to subscription was inevitable and some level of consolidated was needed, but Broadcom went way too far in the wrong direction. Forcing folks into VCF is not the answer and saying you're switching from CPU to cores and it should help customers save money is the biggest load of cr-p, especially when you have a 16 core minimum. '
This guy gets it...
I'm worried they'll sc--w up the licensing negotiations for EUC.
What alternatives are there? For all the noise, none of them are going to be that viable for enterprise customers. The consensus online appears to be that they’re not ready for enterprise (Nutanix, Proxmox) or they’re wrapped up in some other vendor tech (Microsoft) which will take a long time to move to. If not enterprise, there’s lots of discussion over whether Broadcom want to deal with them or just much
I'll be honest, the migration to subscription was inevitable and some level of consolidated was needed, but Broadcom went way too far in the wrong direction. Forcing folks into VCF is not the answer and saying you're switching from CPU to cores and it should help customers save money is the biggest load of cr-p, especially when you have a 16 core minimum.
i work for a large VAR and it's full on panic with customers. Almost every customer I talk to wants to evaluate VMware alternatives.