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    Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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    209 points mmoogle | 11 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.999s | source | bottom
    1. ridruejo ◴[19 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44611282[source]▶
    Hi, former cofounder of Bitnami here. I left VMware quite a while ago, so not involved with this. The technical team at Bitnami is still top notch and great people. I am quite baffled at this business decision.
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    2. burnt-resistor ◴[19 Jul 25 02:45 UTC] No.44612111[source]▶
    I was a service provider of Zimbra and had great relations with VMware folks on Page Mill many moons ago. One my friends helped move VMware HQs within PA just out of college.

    Fuck Wall St. greedy morons at Broadcom. Hubris will educate them the hard way as they fade in relevance.

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    3. jauntywundrkind ◴[19 Jul 25 03:15 UTC] No.44612261[source]▶
    Is there a company more "Take what you can, give nothing back" than Broadcom? Probably not.

    Broadcom's continued ability to perform well while only serving ever more upmarket areas, & cutting everyone else loose (& generally giving no figs) is fantastically impressive.

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    4. whoIsYou ◴[19 Jul 25 04:47 UTC] No.44612673[source]▶
    nobody familiar with broadcom or how they are run should be even remotely surprised by this decision
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    5. colechristensen ◴[19 Jul 25 06:44 UTC] No.44613152[source]▶
    Broadcom is just private equity buying products to bleed dry. Nobody thinks VMware is the future, but the folks that use it are enterprises with deep pockets who are slow and reluctant to change so you can multiply the price by big numbers and get paid big while your dying acquired product meets its end.
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    6. ridruejo ◴[19 Jul 25 11:04 UTC] No.44614432[source]▶
    It’s mostly that they don’t understand their own users and potential customers in this particular case of Bitnami. There are so many other ways to increase revenue without alienating the core developer base. Enterprise want stability, breaking changes is a poor way to convince someone to pay you.
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    7. ghaff ◴[19 Jul 25 13:40 UTC] No.44615391{3}[source]▶
    VMware's lock on enterprise virtualization simultaneously made it essentially impossible for anyone else to compete like-for-like using a different platform and probably also doomed VMware's attempt to start pivoting to containers.
    8. sneak ◴[19 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44615809[source]▶
    Oracle.
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    9. bbarnett ◴[19 Jul 25 15:40 UTC] No.44616436[source]▶
    I take daily walks, and sometimes walk that campus. It always baffled me that it was bigger than my home town.

    All gone now. Sad.

    10. stackskipton ◴[19 Jul 25 15:50 UTC] No.44616522{3}[source]▶
    Is there other ways that are just as easy?

    Last company was pretty heavy free user of Bitnami charts for various things but biggest being Redis clusters. I can't imagine they could convert everything into a cluster using their own charts before this kicks in. Very possible they end up tossing at least a year worth of licensing towards Bitnami.

    11. nine_k ◴[19 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44617401{3}[source]▶
    In fairness, Oracle keeps developing JVM and Java rather nicely, and keeps it open enough. I had expected worse.