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anoldnewb Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructureThe title is incorrect, from ARSTechnica Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s “abusive conduct” Server workloads not servers. Reply
RobtheRobot Broadcom, like so many large companies are using their virtual monopoly (please forgive the pun) to price gouge its loyal customers – greed dictating short term profit over long term sustainability. We can only hope that so many people get peed off with them that they eventually end up shrinking to the size of unsustainable pocket lint. It used to be the case that large companies understood not to eat away at the hull keeping the ship afloat, but to work with them and with society to improve everyone's lot. They still made boat loads of money, but there was a social conscience. I can only imagine that between Victoria and today's American-style juvenilistic capitalism idiots have taken over the asylum. Reply
thesyndrome I'm guessing Hock Tan's plan is to get as much short-term profit as possible, then when VMWare starts bleeding too many customers and is looking like it's going to start losing money to an unrecoverable point, he will bail on the company to go be CEO of another one by saying "look how much money I made VMWare!" and point to the short-term profit, casually leaving out how that short-term profit destroyed the business. This is the CEO playbook for the past 15+ years, and it's completely disgusting. Reply
DS426 Good for Tesco. Hopefully we'll see some more big players doing this soon. Maybe if VMware didn't have a solid competitor, they could get away with this. Turns out that ProxMox is a really awesome virtualization platform, and then there's other big players like Citrix that have strong partnerships in B2B and government. Heck, they have a good variety of virtualization solutions (DaaS, virtual apps, etc.) and other networking solutions (pretty much full service offering) that stands to benefit customers that want higher levels of integration and platform consolidation. Broadcom should have grandfathered in all existing contracts, provide a three or five year grace period for companies to prepare for the change, and then gradually ramp up subscriptions (notice I said "gradually"). That would have been a good-faith effort toward their loyal customers, but nope, the strategy was short-term profits over long-term. There's other ways to generate revenue, such as white glove services, consulting, security and other software bolt-ons, and so on. Reply
PEnns thesyndrome said: he will bail on the company to go be CEO of another one by saying "look how much money I made VMWare!" and point to the short-term profit, casually leaving out how that short-term profit destroyed the business. This is the CEO playbook for the past 15+ years, and it's completely disgusting. And I bet he will liquidate his stock-options at the first hint of trouble before leaving. A win-win tradition. Reply
SmokyBarnable I love to see blowback from corporate greed. Reply
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