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It never takes as little as you (or others, myself included) think it should. Big companies have a lot of inertia and changing anything which is working today, even if it saves a lot, attached your name to the risk it will fail horribly, so you'd be reluctant to suggest it, esp. since it's usually not your own money (your budget maybe, but not your own money).

Broadcom knows this very well and likely turned the price screw exactly right - just before the breaking point for the critical mass of their customers.

What I think will lead to the eventual implosion of VMware's market share, on a longer timescale, is the removal of free ESXi. Many people acquire familiarity with small scale/home/demo labs or PoC prototypes, then they recommend going with what they're familiar with. This led Microsoft where they are now, by always giving big discounts to students and never going too hard on those running cracked copies. They saw it as an investment and they were bloody right. If the product had been better it would completely dominate now, but even as shoddy as it is, it's a huge cash cow.