@Valuy, beyond the ‘abusive conduct’ accusation, I’m thinking about the sheer cost for Tesco to rip out 40,000 servers and re-platform. It’s not just the new hardware/software, but the operational overhead, retraining staff, and potential service disruptions. This kind of move makes the initial cost of choosing open-source, even with its own challenges, look very appealing in the long run for critical infrastructure. It underscores the value of flexibility. We’ve gathered some insights on the TCO (total cost of ownership) comparisons between proprietary and open-source stacks for customer acquisition, which might be interesting to you at https://cxgo.ai/l/63hknMG.
Lol @ a supermarket chain calling another company abusive.
Anyway, are these the corporate customers Broadcom decided to focus on to the detriment of the average user?
We were a VMware shop, albeit much smaller deployments. When a vendor increases prices up to 1000% (https://www.ciodive.com/news/att-broadcom-vmware-price-hikes-court-battle/728603/), you can bet that price is being passed along to consumers. VMware was by far the most popular virtualization platform prior to the acquisition, so it’d be a safe bet that you were affected by this from more than one company you deal with.
Someone must have told them about proxmox lol.
I have trouble feeling sympathy for any company which didn’t greet the Broadcom buyout of VMWare with a firm plan to migrate. Expecting anything other than “abusive conduct” out of Broadcom is like expecting to jump in the ocean and not get wet.