VMware outsourcing their support
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VMware outsourcing their support
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#2RIP
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#3Broadcom must have the most idiotic management from all the large tech companies. Everybody understands you buy a company to recoup the investment, streamline operations and push forward with new markets.
But do you have to increase license prices by three times within the first quarter of an acquisition? Drop all free licenses that allowed for learning of your technologies? Even professionals with years of experience of providing VMWare official training curriculum are being forced to pay for licenses that were free.
All training responsibilities, dropped with no warning on the historical training providers...
What McKinsey Consultant, advised for aliening a customer base of 20 years, within the first quarter of an acquisition?
Google, Azure and AWS Sales reps must be salivating at this opportunity.
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#4Proxmox added VMware VM imports to their product. They must be doing well because of the purchase by Broadcom. Hahaha.
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#5Proxmox added VMware VM imports to their product. They must be doing well because of the purchase by Broadcom. Hahaha.
Our VMWare bill went from $66 to $3600 this year (just a dozen VMs).
Next year we will be using ProxMox.
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#6Just a blatant case of the creeping fictionalization that is destroying good businesses. No one is safe from these new finance overlords.
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#7Broadcom must have the most idiotic management from all the large tech companies. Everybody understands you buy a company to recoup the investment, streamline operations and push forward with new markets. But do you have to increase license prices by three times within the first quarter of an acquisition? Drop all free licenses that allowed for learning of your technologies? Even professionals with years of experienc…
If you look at its history, Broadcom is a financial acquisition company that operates in technology. I think Tan's position is: these are (mostly) mature technologies and should be horse traded like financial assets.
Got lucky with the LSI Logic design team and Google TPU's. Presently $8 bln/yr I understand. Although such serendipity increases when you're able to buy everything you see. With the exception of Qualcomm.
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#8Does it properly uninstall nowadays? As in you can move between versions by removing a newer version and installing a old version?
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#9Broadcom must have the most idiotic management from all the large tech companies. Everybody understands you buy a company to recoup the investment, streamline operations and push forward with new markets. But do you have to increase license prices by three times within the first quarter of an acquisition? Drop all free licenses that allowed for learning of your technologies? Even professionals with years of experienc…
If you look at its history, Broadcom is a financial acquisition company that operates in technology. I think Tan's position is: these are (mostly) mature technologies and should be horse traded like financial assets. Got lucky with the LSI Logic design team and Google TPU's. Presently $8 bln/yr I understand. Although such serendipity increases when you're able to buy everything you see. With the exception of Qualcomm…
Let's see how that turns out for them this time. This was last year but buy now is probably 5 in 5...:
"1 in 5 VMware customers plan to jump off its stack next year" - https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/vmware_customer_forre...
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#10This was inevitable given the recent layoffs. Either they’re in bad financial shape or they’re sociopathically firing employees unnecessarily. Both are excellent reasons for researching the alternatives.