[xd1936]

Non-Profit Liberal Arts Higher Ed here. Trying to move to the Azure Hybrid Cloud as fast as possible. Going to have to eat one more year of 170% price hike in our current VMware contract.

Heard from a peer school on the east coast that had to sign a 600% hike in their most recent contract. Absolutely evil.

[jesterson]

I would not call it evil. Orgs are _voluntarily_ making the choice to lock in for expensive useless proprietary software by either being stupid or - actually evil - receiving kickbacks from those proprietary companies.

Every manager signing off the contract with vendor lock in should understand possible repercussions. Its not a rocket science. Yep they will screw you along the way with prices. Yea, that sales rep saying they won't is a lying bastard that can't care ess about your business the moment your pen raised from your signature in contract.

But people still believe in tales aren't they

[xd1936]

I understand all of that. We made a calculated risk, sure... back in 2007, and we've been happy to pay since. Only now, in one year, do the screws turn so tightly.

But at least shareholder value is going up somewhere.