Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 12/4/2024 8:20 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute
contempt towards their users ?

I am expecting companies to attempt to maximize profit.
That expectation tend to minimize disappointment.  :-)
Question is of course whether Broadcom is maximizing profit!
The pricing strategy seems to be to cash in now and not worry about
long term as opposed to try and setup a long term steady income.
Given the move to containers and cloud then I actually think that it may be a profit maximizing strategy. With a shrinking market then the value
of long term is not so big.
But that raises another question: why did they pay so much? The price
hikes may be profit maximizing, but it will not bring in what they paid
for VMWare.
  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 guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
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Arne