Subj : Re: MS-DOS and Win 3.11 Admin
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Mhansel739
Date : Wed Feb 21 2024 06:18:42

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

That is HORRIBLE! I understand trying to maximize profits out of a
product line, but to take away from the small businesses is stupid. You
are ruining your customer base. The perpetual licensing thing -
double-edged sword there - most companies are moving to subscriptions,
but come on, these are freaking servers. You set them up, enable the
virtualization piece, and that is it. From there it is licensing for the
VMs that are running inside of that. I am not trying to oversimplify
things, but come on. 
Thanks for the info. 
--Matt

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