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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: 0.001s | source
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czhu12 ◴[03 Dec 24 19:00 UTC] No.42309882[source]▶
Can someone explain what VMWare does so well that allows them to do this for someone totally uninformed? No where I've worked at has used VMWare, but everywhere I've worked used containers or VM's of some sort.

Even in the early 2015's kubernetes was mature enough to run production workloads. Any issues that did come up were with our own application code, never the orchestrator.

I never found myself thinking that it would be nice to have a close sourced expensive option to reach for.

What area does VMWare excel so much to justify this pricing power?

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1. eitally ◴[03 Dec 24 19:09 UTC] No.42309993[source]▶
If you actually literally meant "or VMs" in your statement, I'm curious what sort they were that were not VMWare?

VMWare absolutely owns this market in the enterprise. It's been reliable, it's well-supported, there's a huge ecosystem of vendors and integration partners around it, and it's been the no-brainer choice for virtualization for CIOs since about 2010 (or earlier!).

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2. czhu12 ◴[03 Dec 24 19:16 UTC] No.42310074[source]▶
Yeah so we used Vagrant way way back in the day to have an easy way to distribute dev environments. Definitely not an expert here as to all the alternatives, but for what we had, the devex felt fine.