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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Many SMBs will walk away at next server refresh.

VMware is walking dead.

We're currently testing Nutanix and Proxmox for smaller clients.

Proxmox support is similar (~65%) in cost to VMware licensing, but it's not likely to pull this sudden increase BS. Plus it's capabilities are significant for SMB.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (8 children)

That’s the point. Broadcom focuses on only the top consumers and desire everyone else to go away. They then focus only on what those top consumers want and their support staff can be cut down considerably.

It’s an interesting tactic that they have mastered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like every large sas company tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You're not wrong!

I think Broadcom overplayed it on this one, as this example shows.

Or, they're playing a game we can't figure out. A 20,000 VM client is in the "large customers we want to keep" category.

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