Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : Mhansel739
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Feb 19 2024 06:58:00

-=> Mhansel739 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Mh> May I inquire as to what is happening with VMWare? Most of our
 Mh> customers that we setup servers for, we use ESXI. I work for a small
 Mh> MSP in Michigan. I am a Hyper-V fan (good, bad, or otherwise). I am
 Mh> getting exposed to ESXI a little bit. Back to my "question". Our
 Mh> environments are small - 1-4 servers typically (1 host, 2-3 VMs). How
 Mh> is Broadcom (they own VMWare, right?) messing with it?

There's a ton of information around the 'net, but it started with
Broadcom's CEO noting that the majority of their revenues come from
a fraction of their customer base, their largest customers.

They removed perpetual licensing, jacked up support pricing, removed
some of the licensing most beneficial to smaller companies and removed
the free version of ESXi, which a lot of people used to learn VMWare in
homelabs. They're trying to extract as much money out of it as they can,
while they can.





.... It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it plays out for 'em...
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