[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.