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VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

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245 points rntn | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 12:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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walterbell ◴[08 Sep 25 13:09 UTC] No.45167801[source]▶
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2025/08/31/broadc...

> Many mid-market and regional operators view the new [subscription] structure as untenable and are actively exploring alternatives.. Nutanix emerged early as the leading competitive alternative to VMware.. over 2,700 new customers.. driven by organizations fleeing VMware's new pricing model.. [including] more than 50 Global 2000 companies, representing major enterprises willing to undertake complex, multi-year infrastructure overhauls.. With VMware serving approximately 200,000 customers globally, Nutanix sees most of the migration opportunity still ahead.

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alephnerd ◴[08 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45167849[source]▶
> Many mid-market and regional operators

These aren't Broadcom's ICPs.

> Nutanix

Good for Nutanix. Market segmentation exists for a reason.

The article is also written by Steve McDowell, who's analyst firm (NAND Research) is sponsored by Nutanix [0][1]

Welcome to Enterprise Sales.

[0] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93FbVZGDXoY

[1] - https://www.nutanix.com/theforecastbynutanix/technology/hype...

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walterbell ◴[08 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45167986[source]▶
The article mentions several VMware alternatives:

  - RedHat OpenShift (k8s)
  - Scale Computing HC3
  - Wind River Cloud 
  - public cloud providers
Any other alternatives?
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1. nick__m ◴[08 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45171051[source]▶
in no particular order:

- HPE morpheus VM Essential

- Apache Cloudstack

- Platform9

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2. jhickok ◴[08 Sep 25 17:55 UTC] No.45171543[source]▶
Really feels like Openstack could use a fresh coat of paint and someone to create a nice opinionated distribution of it and challenge some of these f500 customer vmware accounts. It's very powerful, but is as user-hostile as I have personally experienced. Maybe this already exists though with Cloudstack?