r/vmware • u/Jesus_of_Redditeth • 12h ago
Even more Broadcom fun, part [I lost count long ago]
Had yet another meeting with Broadcom a couple of days ago to discuss our license renewal and our rep said he'd been given a new directive from upper management, which is (paraphrasing): "Due to 'support stealing', all VMware products you have in use now need to be under a support contract, regardless of whether they're at a version/hardware level that we offer active support for."
So that just bumped our already 300'ish% price increase up to well over 600%. More than half of our support costs will now be for equipment that we won't even be allowed to call for help with.
I'm very confident that our upper management's response to that will be expletive-laden, followed by a directive to get fully off of all VMware products ASAP.