[red-iron-pine]

I was an infrastructure architect at a F50, and I'm sure they'd have been quite sensitive to the changes. Like, once we got a confirmation of new pricing, the day after we're kicking off a Discovery process to find and cost out some alternatives.

They were, and I'm guessing still are, also very resistant to SaaS / IaaS plays, for a lot of (arguably) good reasons, and I'm not sure what they'd go with as an alternative. OpenShift? Raw dog some DIY docker clusters?

[p_l]

Probably various integrators? Oxide misses some critical features in networking right now but I suspect it would a very tempting option for many once they added support for the typical unholy mess that are vlans connected to vmware networks.

I don't know where exactly in spending bracket my current $DAYJOB fits, but I did hear both about negotiating prices with Broadcom and grumbles of looking for replacement including accelerating movement to AWS where possible.