• cøre@leminal.spaceEnglish
    15 days

    We were a VMware shop until the buyout. We’ve moved almost all our virtualization to Nutanix. Fuck Broadcom.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 days

    What took them so long? Even before the Broadcom purchase, VMWare was enshittifying their product. They failed to transition from technology leader to commodity product.

    But other technologies have since come along to make VMs either a lot less important or baked in. For me too it was a sudden transition going from VM farms to docker/k8s, web apps, cloud services, etc. on the other hand that was years ago

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 days

      They failed to transition from technology leader to commodity product.

      Well, Broadcom clearly saw that VMware was on the trajectory to be supplanted by either cloud aligned virtualization solutions or built in operating system virtualization. They failed to really carve out another niche because even in the most dedicated VMware shop, all the advances happened in operating systems by other vendors.

      So Broadcom decided explicitly to gouge the hell out of customers too afraid to migrate losing any chance at new customers (which they probably weren’t going to get any way) and scaring away current customers (I recall some report they felt they could alienate 90% of their customers and still be happy with how hard they were gouging the remaining 10%).

      In short, going exactly according to plan.

      • jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14 days

        Literally the Hock Tan playbook. Buy a foundational technology and jack the price way up assuming the whales will keep paying while mid and small customers fall away. Did it with Symantec, started to do it with Bitnami but backed off a bit due to massive backlash.

        They bank on the asspain of switching tech tooling being greater than the financial pain of the price gouging. But hey, that’s capitalism for ya.

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
    15 days

    Lol @ a supermarket chain calling another company abusive.

    Anyway, are these the corporate customers Broadcom decided to focus on to the detriment of the average user?

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 days

    I understand the need for SLAs but I’m always annoyed to see businesses never consider just using that vendor money to pay for a quality IT team and using something open source like Proxmox or Apache Cloud.

    Especially when its something really basic like VMs and not actual cloud infrastructure.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      14 days

      Nobody wants responsibility. If you go with a vendor it’s their fault when they fuck up. If it’s internal, someone in the company has to take the blame.

      • LordCrom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14 days

        No one is ever fired for buying IBM or Microsoft.

        You get fired by saving the company million s with open source alternatives until the day there’s an issue and they can’t blame IBM or Microsoft.