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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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210 points mmoogle | 5 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.629s | source
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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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1. 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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2. 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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3. ghaff ◴[19 Jul 25 13:40 UTC] No.44615391[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.
4. sneak ◴[19 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44615809[source]▶
Oracle.
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5. nine_k ◴[19 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44617401[source]▶
In fairness, Oracle keeps developing JVM and Java rather nicely, and keeps it open enough. I had expected worse.