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The end is here – VMware by Broadcom
The end is here – VMware by Broadcom
#VMware #Broadcom
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It took 546 days for Broadcom to finally acquire #VMware in one of the largest mega-acquisitions in modern tech history. The acquisition has dramatic effects on the virtualization landscape and affects every VMware user out there. This video walks through all of the changes #Broadcom has made…
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Well, the decision to start migrating our infrastructure at work to Nutanix just became crystal clear. 24k VDI desktops, and just about 1000 ESXi Hosts are firmly in the loss category for Broadcom beancounters.
Mmm. Smell the enshitification.
This is yet another sign of a need for governmental legislation in order to guide the U.S. away from end stage capitalism, where private equity simply goes through and tears down everyone else's work for a quick buck, to the detriment of so many.
XCP-NG here i come.
Use qemu
Linux user here, similar b.s. that IBM/Red Hat has done to open source (Fedora) …or should I say tried to. Don't p*ss off the geeks in open source…
Broadcom should not have been allowed to make the purchase, it should've been blocked.
Glad I wasn't building my new server around that as it will be my first run at Proxmox.
I work in a pre sales side of business. I have seen a surge in "non VMware " options for hosting opportunities by clients. Containerisation can be an answer but most of the enterprises aren't ready to invest such a huge amount to modernize their current technology landscape. Looking at the slump of the economy, most CTO have reduced the IT budget and it will be interesting to see, how VMware fares with such high prices and extreme cost pressure of business.
Everything is going to subscription model, adobe, microsoft products etc etc etc, is time too move to another platform, gnu/linux and open source software is the way
I have 3 letters for you… KVM.
Any news about what's happening to Workstation/Player and Fusion?
We have explored on agileintelli open source hypervisor and success on the same.
Saw the writing on the wall a while back, moved my dev lab clusters over to Proxmox, everyone is far happier (including the bean counters!)
The things that made VMware great and setup massive communities (VMUG) is dead. Broadcom is a POS company that purchases and guts beloved products for the most money and leaves waste and disappointment behind. I was hoping this would be blocked…. I am a VMUG member in my home lab… But now I'm looking for others. I love VMware. But now it's turned to trash.
RIP
Rip VMware. The beloved company that Broadcom destroyed…
Flat bill cap and douche beard.
Damn yet another product I have invested in for years goes the route of subscription.
This is sad, I do not do subscription. I refuse to RENT… I will use my paid for products until they stop working.
Just like Adobe & Microsoft, and a couple low cost apps (like GoodSync that I paid $40 for but now they want $30 a year… go pound sand)
Also I seem to remember Symantec taking things over and destroying some very good software… Ghost, PGP, PcAnywhere to name a few.
if you are a home lab or small business and are still on VMWare then you probably should of moved awhile ago as there are MUCH better and free options available.
I still think VDI was gutted by Microsoft's borderline unobtainable Windows licences and requirements for client devices.
One correction though is that Broadcom didn't strip their earlier acquisitions for parts and throw the rest away. The CA and Symantec products are still selling to this day. And those successful acquisitions are a good sign for VMware.
If you are not afraid of FreeBSD Bhyve with BVCP is a pretty great alt for a home lab. It is light weight and open source. Been using it for a little over a year and I love it.
What is going to happen to all acquired companies acquired by VMware, like Pivotal (SpringSource) and SaltStack?
I use Proxmox! 🙂
Eh, I'm glad now I decided to not use VMs on Windows.
Docker killed VMware. I can’t think of much I can’t do in docker that I previously used VMs for. Obviously VMs have uses still, but for many less use cases and people
(Shrugs in KVM)
They've already wrecked Carbon Black. We're leaving with a year left in contract as they've lost all focus. Can confirm Broadcom intends to dump the entity.
Broadcom is going to gotbel up everything. Just like they did with Symantec, bluecoat etc
These mergers should not be allowed. Simple as that. The fact that a software solution intended for multiple hardware vendors is now wholey owned by a single hardware vendor when the software was previously agnostic to the specific hardware vendor is nuts.
This will hurt the efforts of so many hardware companies.
This is as totally nuts as the splunk / cisco acquisition. So frustrating that people approving these mergers are so blind to the destruction they are sowing.
This is why I use open source software.
now i don't feel quite as bad switching to hyper-v in my lab.
VMware senior management has wanted to move to a subscription model for more than 10 years but didn't know how to force customers into the transition. They're motivated by the fear that once markets are saturated there will be no more license revenue growth. In addition a subscription model is more predictable making their lives easier. Screwing customers over is how you get paid the big bucks.
I guess I know which component of Windows will get much needed attention, from Microsoft, in the near future… Hyper-V.
Not sorry but lol for not standing up for Net neutrality reap what you sowe for real. Good thing its a commercial product that's enterprise focused, I can still VM at home with well so many options where to start these days. No disrespect but I really don't get why people are bothered especially given it's enterprise space, thought this kind of corporate homogeneity and vertical integration is what everyone wants? Surely the consolidation is a good thing here like for once.
I am not surprised that Broadcom does away with Perpetual licensing in favor of subscription based service, main reason, MONEY. Sole reason as well. What's worse, most likely there won't be a private sector subscription, and if there will it will be ANNUAL subscription displayed as a monthly with the "billed annually" written in small lettering under the monthly shown price. AnyDesk done the same where they switched subscription models and they do not have monthly. Once I asked TeamViewer why they do not offer monthly, the answer I got? "We can not process so large amount of payments" while other services do.
You didn't mention anything about Tanzu
I don't know how that deal got approved lol. Dolla dolla bills ya'll.