[9cb14c1ec0]

I don't think I've ever seen to this degree such a misguided focus on short-term profit at the expense of driving away ALL future customers. At this point, who ever would even consider VMware for a new project or business? Vmware will exist only as long as their current customers exist. Being a VMware salesperson has to be a brutal job right now.

[rekoil]

And you can bet that many of them are currently looking at removing or severely reducing their VMware dependance, maybe even decommissioning projects that are deemed unfeasible to move to another platform.

[mhuffman]

Yes. A 15% price hike is a little high, but could be expected in bigger businesses from time to time, a 15X price hike is something that the entire C-Suite now has to discuss. And what 15X new features are coming with it now?