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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: 0.209s | 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. DaiPlusPlus ◴[03 Dec 24 19:33 UTC] No.42310239[source]▶
> What area does VMWare excel so much to justify this pricing power?

My experience is only with VMWare's desktop-virtualization tools, but hands-down they have the best integration features and services, especially for... uh... "retro" small-business computing needs (in my case, it was the only way I could get a VM running Windows Server 2003 to work - which I needed in-order to be able to run a Progress-based CRM).

I find it odd that Microsoft's own virtualization/Hyper-V stuff is useless if you're wanting to run older versions of Windows, especially XP/2000/2003 (as Hyper-V was a post-Vista/WS2008 thing); it's not just the lack of drivers, but the lack of absolutely-essential integration features like USB port forwarding and "real" GPU emulation (because Hyper-V's "Enhanced Session mode" doesn't actually show you the local-console desktop: it's all just using a special mode of RDP).