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Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

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146 points belter | 2 comments | 03 Dec 24 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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skissane ◴[03 Dec 24 17:16 UTC] No.42308551[source]▶
10x price increase? Sounds like a classic Computer Associates move. I think when Broadcom bought CA they also acquired this aspect of CA’s culture, and are now applying it to products which never had anything to do with CA.
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1. pjmlp ◴[03 Dec 24 18:03 UTC] No.42309110[source]▶
I lost track of CA after the whole Clipper acquisition, and trying to make a VB alternative out of its Windows version.
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2. skissane ◴[03 Dec 24 18:52 UTC] No.42309765[source]▶
In the mid-2000s I worked for a place where we were paying exorbitant annual license fees for this CA eTrust LDAP we hardly used. We mainly used Novell eDir and Sun JES LDAP, we were so happy when we could migrate the eTrust to Sun. Later on, Sun JES got replaced by Oracle Internet Directory, and Novell eDir got replaced by AD.

Say what you like about Sun or Oracle or Novell, their pricing was much more reasonable than CA’s. Plus we were a public university, and CA didn’t seem to believe in education discounts, whereas Oracle gave us a standard education discount of over 90% off list price.

CA was famously the place where mainframe software went to die. When I worked for Oracle, I had some very limited exposure to CA TopSecret and ACF2, which are mainframe security products (RACF competitors) that CA bought, which an Oracle product I was working on integrated with. No idea what the licensing was but I’m sure it wasn’t cheap.