Surely this is self defeating? Everyone seeing these insane price increases will scare off any potential new customers and drive away the customers they do have. Sure it might increase revenue in the short term but ultimately it’ll kill the product. Or is that the point? Make as much money as they can with as little effort as possible and then let it die?
It is the point, this is exactly what Broadcom does.
Yup, this is on form for them. This isn’t the first product they’ve done it to and surely won’t be the last.
The moment the news broke we started migration planning, a short while later their new pricing came through and immediately justified the project spend. Tens of thousands of VMs migrated, a ton of labour, and even some hardware refreshes thrown in - and still cheaper than renewing, by a looong shot.
Shame, I liked VMware.
What platform your company (I assume) migrated to?
Probably Xen. Maybe proxmox. Both had tools to assist with migration.
Standard private equity form behavior
The fact that it’s called Broadcom at all… They just bought the company a while back and started using the brand because it’s recognizable in the tech industry. It’s not really Broadcom, just a shell.
Yay capitalism
They know customers will pay, but mostly they can lock in long term contracts on favorable terms.
Hock is scarily good at his job, depending on how you define his job.
Any one want to guess who will really end up paying for the price hike?
It’s not AT&T.
HyperV looking like a good option for a lot of customers now. They are in the Microsoft noose anyway… so now they can go all in.
Why would MS not use this opportunity to also hike the prices of their equivalent offerings? 1000% increase leaves a lot of room for an increase while still being cheaper.
They absolutely will. Maybe not tomorrow.
DiaperV can go die in a fire. I’d move to Nutanix
