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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
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Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#32(2025) OP.
The current report and discussion this week:
Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#33Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#34Never thought I'd be able to say this, but Broadcom has out-CA'd Computer Associates. For those not familiar with CA, their model was to buy up failed enterprise software companies and milk the s@*t out of the licensing and support contracts, while spending next-to-nothing on development. Broadcom follows much the same model with steroids and protein powder. CA failed, only after years of profitable rent-seeking. The…
CA was horrible. I worked there but your claims are a little too strong. They bought up and coming products within rising sectors, "over paying" knowing they could cash in. They then introduced those products into their large portfolio of large enterprise clients (who trusted them deeply) giving the purchased products increased market share and real associated profits. They were the trusted technical friend for non technical companies. They did after initial investment then largely and entirely killing innovation on and investment in the products. It was the place that products went to die.
[edit: perhaps it got darker and more cynical after I left. I wouldn't be terribly surprised. I left in 2013, post Enron style accounting fraud, pre sale to Broadcom]
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#35Having VMware in 2026 is a sign of low tech.
Supermarkets probably should use boring tech. They aren't tech companies.
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#36"In 2018, Computer Associates was acquired by Broadcom Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, for nearly $19 billion."
The behaviour was acquired too ....
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#37Never thought I'd be able to say this, but Broadcom has out-CA'd Computer Associates. For those not familiar with CA, their model was to buy up failed enterprise software companies and milk the s@*t out of the licensing and support contracts, while spending next-to-nothing on development. Broadcom follows much the same model with steroids and protein powder. CA failed, only after years of profitable rent-seeking. The…
Facebook and good should be at the top of that list for selling scams to users
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#38They're not the only ones pissed off with VMWare [1]. What I don't understand is what prevents them to shop around for alternatives. What is VMWare's very good moat that prevents the competition from invading their castle? https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/24/half-of-vmwa...
because there are no real alternatives. Everything that could be considered an alternative has drawbacks or things that are missing. Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts, so you'd be stuck with a 3rd party. Then there's training. you can't easily switch your admins and service desk techs to a different product. That alone takes months, of not years, and costs a lot. Rewrite all pr…
> Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts
... but then again, neither does VMware, apparently.
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#39Having VMware in 2026 is a sign of low tech.
Supermarkets probably should use boring tech. They aren't tech companies.
I agree about boring tech. They're not a tech company but they're not low or anti tech though
Tesco worked closely with a data startup to create the Clubcard and that startup is now a big company owned by Tesco (Dunnhumby, £350m, 2,000 employees)
They were the first supermarket to do online grocery delivery
They had Nokia apps for groceries on 2009, iPhone in 2010
Huge supply chain automation
Tesco Labs etc
Re: Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there's no business potential. 20 years ago anyone and everyone had datacenters full of VMware. Now most of it is stuff that a company hasn't bothered to move to cloud yet. There's a few things it's still the best choice for but those are niche things. Like stuff that absolutely needs to be self hosted for privacy or security. The time of VMware being the default is long gone. Moving from a mainstream to a ni…
> There's a few things it's still the best choice for but those are niche things. That just isn't true. The reality is that being in the cloud is not beneficial for most businesses. They do it because it's trendy, not because it's the best solution. In recent years we've seen more and more recognition of that fact, and it has driven people to host stuff on prem.
Well that's another story, which I totally agree with by the way. I'm not a proponent of cloud at a all for 24/7 workloads.
However the fact is that most companies do this anyhow and they feel like it's the best solution. Onprem vmware is just a shrinking market. I don't really see that expanding again until it hits rockbottom and of course broadcom's behaviour isn't helping.