Re: VMWARE/ESXi Linux

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

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:
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. . . 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.

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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.
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My employer was given a special one-off offer of 500% and went "Hell,
no!"
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Are you sure your employer's response was not a little more Anglo-Saxon
in nature ? :-)
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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.

That action did not stand.  Forget the actual result.  Such activity is in need of feathers, rail, tar, and a rope.
Thing is, he didn't do anything illegal.

This is so blatant by Broadcom, I'm surprised the EU has not got more
seriously involved.
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Simon.
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The key issue is whether Broadcom can at least recover their investment.  Many will be pleased if they fail to do so.
My bet is that the pricing might get some adjustments, should enough users refuse the high prices.  They will find a price that sticks with enough users. The problem with that is that enough users will accept some compromise.
Or maybe they need a large tax write-off ...
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