Broadcom loses another big VMware customer

I have to wonder if stuff like this will, over time, force companies to be extremely wary of any tech that eventually falls into the "extremely difficult to remove" category, and have companies instead requiring open source solutions and then separate contracts with support companies for those solutions.

It's just further re-emphasizing that it doesn't matter how good your vendor is now, they will probably eventually get acquired by a company attempting to squeeze every last penny out of you. And their cost-benefit calculation is no longer based on how much unique value the software is providing, but it's instead about how much of a PITA it is to migrate off said software.

Umm. The contingency plan for any big corp is to continually plan to migrate off a legacy system. It takes forever for big corp, if they don’t have a contingency plan now they will never have it. He wants to drop a bunch of run books on people and tell them go do that. He only wants configuration and does not want any development.