Now this is how you Hock a customer!
1000% price increase.
I’m impressed.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/broadcom-tried-to-jack-vmware-prices-by-1050-percent-att-claims/
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Who caved in? What is the agreement in principle?
What’s the latest with AT&T
Hock’s health is in decline, so he will end up compromising because he is exhausted.
What is the deal with the settlement? Is Hock backing down or AT&T?
Hock says - as long as the bïtches pay, I don’t care what they think. I’ll be gone and they’ll be gone in 2 years after the râpe is over and I move on to new targets.
This is the way!
You do not understand how important customer sentiment is.
Faaakkkkk those customers. If ATT charges me 10x I will just driver over my phone. These customers don't know how to use freeware and want to buy k8s from VMware? Don't they get the fact that VMware will only target governments and sovereign clouds and private AI for deep state surveillance?
Lol. Not Game over. Bcom will pay a fine and move on.
This has the potential to royally fu-k Hock on the VMW acquisition. Due to this case all exec email is on legal hold and subject to discovery. If the discussions around sc--wing customers with higher pricing become public it's game over.
This is the way!!
So he basically hocked it to them!
Hock Smash!
1000% of peanuts they were paying is not that much anyways. Most probably AT&T was paying less than $200 per CPU per year, $3.5M/Year for 8,700 servers/75,000 VMs. Now move that to public cloud, Nautanix or any other platform they would be paying way more than 10 times their $3.5M/year. They had enjoyed the best hypervisor for peanuts for 10+ years due to VMware inability to charge fair price.
AT&T is claiming to he strategic partner, which I call BS! Strategic partners have aligned strategies and VMware's strategy have been hybrid cloud and full stack on-prem private cloud for a long time and AT&T apart from renewals have wanted to do nothing with VMware cloud transfortion.