Too late Broadcom. You dun fucked up.
Milking customers only works if they can’t go anywhere else. Too bad dozens of different virtual machine hypervisors exist.
This is the corporate equivalent of “Oops we fucked up and customers noticed.”
I doubt it will stem the flow after already ditching partners like AWS. As an ICT consultant with two decades of experience with VMware, I’m not recommending this platform any longer and this announcement won’t change that. I doubt that I’m an outlier in this view, time will tell.
Dell, what the fuck did you done.
Made lots and lots and lots of money selling their stake.
Oh they’re selling VMware? Because them buying it was the controversial part that spurred people to migrate. Everything else was expected.
It was a dumb move. They had a niche market cornered, (serious) enterprises with on-prem infrastructure. Sure, it was the standard back in the late 2000’s to host virtualization on-prem but since then, the only people who have not outsourced infrastructure hosting to cloud providers, have reasons not to, including financial reasons. The cloud is not cheaper than self-hosting, serverless applications can be more expensive, storage and bandwidth is more limited, and performance is worse. Good example of this is openai vs ollama on-prem. Ollama is 10,000x cheaper, even when you include initial buy-in.
Let VMware fail. At this point they are worth more as a lesson to the industry, turn on your users and we will turn on you.
We got the fuck out as soon as the writing was on the wall. Wait, you want me to pay how much for VMware with new features other than using all my cores?
Well let’s look at my options, proxmox is 2.5% of my VMware price? Jesus…
But not before causing 2+ years of tedious previously-unnecessary migration work. Thanks a lot assholes.
