[sianemo]

What an aggressively myopic, narrow view of the situation. The reason "this VMware stuff" is a huge issue is because Broadcom are just absolutely fucking up relationships between every part of the VMWare ecosystem: the vendor relationship, the support relationship, the licensing system, the trust in a product reliability roadmap, just everything. This creates chaos in any org relying on them, at any size and efficiency. Chaos costs a fortune. The reasons that any org has for keeping their server operations on-prem and reliant on VMware are not as blithely dismissible as you are indicating. In fact, the reasons are frankly irrelevant anyway, as even the most impeccably managed migration plans to whichever big 3 cloud vendor you'd like are going to be thrown at least somewhat askew by the recent actions from Broadcom. The volume of clear, unambiguous discussion and media coverage that this is getting goes a long way to smooth over the pain of mitigation strategies with nontechnical leadership.

[overstay8930]

Broadcom hasn’t screwed up anything with the big contracts, only SMEs. That’s the entire business plan. Did you even read the article? This has been going on for a while.

Nothing I’ve said is wrong, either. It’s almost entirely affecting the small shops who don’t have resources. Big buys are renewing contracts and calling it a day because VMware caters to them.

[rcarmo]

Oh boy, are you mistaken. Big contracts with upcoming renewals have already been approached and are being hit with 3x-5x increases on hypervisor licensing alone (source: I used to be in the ISP/hosting business and have recently consulted on an infra provider acquisition that is hung on this).

[overstay8930]

I know plenty of people in the sales pipeline handling VMWare renewals, they are getting 0 pushback from these massive increases because of my above comment of teams not knowing how to use anything else.

[rcarmo]

That's just because those customers have already decided to move but will take the renewal for 1 year until they re-skill. Many admins are looking to learn other tech.