[kdtsh]

According to VMware/Broadcom in the article: “All licensing options including Perpetual, Support & Subscription (SnS), SaaS/hosted and subscription, as well as all editions, suites and pricing metrics of each product, unless otherwise noted, are included in this announcement. These products are no longer available for purchase.”

It reads like these products and any way to purchase them have been axed. What am I missing? - if the expectation is that these products will be bundled into future product offerings, that’s a big if and if I’m not mistaken I don’t think we have any concrete information about that yet.

[kube-system]

I think the original blog post from VMWare pretty much says what the above person was claiming, if I'm reading it right:

https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-...

[kdtsh]

That blog post was from December, whereas the story link seems to reference a KB from the other day (or today depending on your time zone): https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US&ref=thestac...

This could be read as the solutions will be made available in other products, but there’s no substantial details about that anywhere that I’ve seen.

I think what this really demonstrates is just how much uncertainty around what Broadcom is actually doing with VMware under its new management …