Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 2024-12-02, John Dallman <jgd@cix.co.uk> wrote:

In article <vil9jg$3ives$3@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:
>

. . . a company which switched from VMware to an open-source
alternative as a result of Broadcom's massive price hikes,
and encountered an unexpected benefit: the resources consumed
by system management overhead on the new product were so much
less, they could run more VMs on the same hardware.

>
That will be nice if it happens, but the pricing is a fully sufficient
reason for moving. The way that some companies are seeing 1,000%, while
others see 300% or 500% makes customers very suspicious that Broadcom are
trying to jack up the price as much as each customer will take. If so,
they aren't very good at that.
>
My employer was given a special one-off offer of 500% and went "Hell,
no!"
>

Are you sure your employer's response was not a little more Anglo-Saxon
in nature ? :-)

On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute
contempt towards their users ? It reminds me of the person who took over
supply of a vital medical drug in the US a few years ago and promptly
increased the price massively because the users of the drug where a capture
market that _needed_ to buy the drug.

This is so blatant by Broadcom, I'm surprised the EU has not got more
seriously involved.

Simon.

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