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It is somewhat smart capitalism, drive up the prices extract as much money as possible as fast as you can and when product stops selling write it all off. Executives get their pay checks from options and investors see line go up for short time...
Proxmox 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.
Broadcom 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…
The view of Broadcom is that VMWare has low growth potential and the route to maximum short term financial returns is to extract as much money as possible from the largest customers. So the strategy is to squeeze the 600 largest customers until they bleed, knowing they are so entrenched they cannot easily migrate. If the next couple of thousand stuck around as well that would be nice, but not essential. The long tail…
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The view of Broadcom is that VMWare has low growth potential and the route to maximum short term financial returns is to extract as much money as possible from the largest customers. So the strategy is to squeeze the 600 largest customers until they bleed, knowing they are so entrenched they cannot easily migrate. If the next couple of thousand stuck around as well that would be nice, but not essential. The long tail…
How do you know this is their view? I don't have any strong opinion or evidence to argue, but I'm curious if this is conjecture or inference or actual knowledge?
Proxmox 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.
I would not switch an enterprise from VMWare -> Proxmox without a really thorough analysis of what that will mean.
That said the future of VMware is certainly in question.
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Unfortunately, an economy is now wholly peopled by shareholders, and the most important shareholders are usually the owners and corporate officers. Software dev who's worked in both tech and finance. I don't measure things in just shareholder returns.
Nor do I, just saying "idiotic" is the wrong pejorative here. He's doing what he's being paid to do and doing it competently and successfully.
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Our VMWare bill went from $66 to $3600 this year (just a dozen VMs). Next year we will be using ProxMox.
100$-200$ per VM is a fair price I think. Most of the revenue generating on-prem orgs can afford it. If you think it is expensive then you are not the target segment for VMware.
Revenue generating or not, the free platforms are will generate more revenue than VMware at such and exorbitant cost.
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Unfortunately, an economy is now wholly peopled by shareholders, and the most important shareholders are usually the owners and corporate officers. Software dev who's worked in both tech and finance. I don't measure things in just shareholder returns.
Nor do I, just saying "idiotic" is the wrong pejorative here. He's doing what he's being paid to do and doing it competently and successfully.