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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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146 points belter | 1 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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glitchc ◴[03 Dec 24 17:08 UTC] No.42308466[source]▶
Wouldn't a slow boil have been better than a massive price hike? Raising the price by 50% would be palatable to most medium to large orgs as the cost to switch is greater. And it would still net a nice chunk of change for Broadcom.
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1. Syonyk ◴[03 Dec 24 17:13 UTC] No.42308519[source]▶
I'm sure, according to their models (which may not have existed outside the head of some MBA sorts), this was the most profitable move, because, of course nobody would be able to move off VMWare! It's a vital infrastructure product, or something...

Doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm not a corporate raider, either. I'd just be happy to help people port their internal tooling over to Xen or KVM...