Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

On 2024-12-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

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 ?

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I am expecting companies to attempt to maximize profit.
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That expectation tend to minimize disappointment.  :-)
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Question is of course whether Broadcom is maximizing profit!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wonder if their level of arrogance exceeded their level of competence ?

  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.

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This guy:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
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Yes. I wonder how much more of this the US is in for over the next 4 years. :-(

Simon.

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