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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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229 points mmoogle | 4 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.869s | 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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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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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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1. 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.
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2. snapplebobapple ◴[20 Jul 25 01:13 UTC] No.44621011[source]▶
We were pretty successful moving to proxmox. They dont have the support some companies want but xcpng does. There are half decent options out there for corp use.
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3. ghaff ◴[20 Jul 25 11:02 UTC] No.44623937[source]▶
There are. I worked for a company that had a good KVM-based enterprise virtualization alternative with support. But they never had great commercial success with it displacing VMware. I understand they're having a lot more luck with a kubevirt-based option today post Broadcom acquisition of VMware.
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4. snapplebobapple ◴[20 Jul 25 15:59 UTC] No.44626449{3}[source]▶
If you have the resources to deal with kubevirt (read you are large enough for the increased efficiency across larger installations to overcome the higher cost of kubernetes labor) it's pretty decent. There are a shocking number of sub 5 location places out there that just need 2 low end boxes to virtualize active directory, tenable or equivalent scanner and a few other things that should be choosing xcpng or maybe proxmox if they are doing the analysis rationally (lol).