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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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146 points belter | 5 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.375s | source
1. riffic ◴[03 Dec 24 17:23 UTC] No.42308636[source]▶
everything is a hypervisor these days so I'm not seeing a problem for anyone who isn't Broadcom.
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2. fred_is_fred ◴[03 Dec 24 17:37 UTC] No.42308800[source]▶
The Fortune 500 have 20 years of tooling, people, configs, setup etc in VmWare. It is a big deal for them to switch, it's also a big deal for them to pay 10x.
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3. danudey ◴[03 Dec 24 17:41 UTC] No.42308842[source]▶
The problem is paying the hugely inflated prices Broadcom's price gouging renegotiations are demanding, while also finding money to fund migrating off of VMWare for your infrastructure.

A lot of companies out there (Canonical's OpenStack, RH's OpenShift) are so swamped with customers wanting to migrate off of VMWare that they can't keep up, meaning a lot of companies are going to have to keep paying VMWare while they wait in the migration queue.

4. riffic ◴[03 Dec 24 18:13 UTC] No.42309249[source]▶
I pity the giganto-corps. Everyone saw this coming though.
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5. bluGill ◴[03 Dec 24 19:01 UTC] No.42309887{3}[source]▶
Including [many of] the big corps. However if it takes 5 years to migrate and your current contract is for 3 more years that leaves 2 years of higher prices.