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Even by the standards of blind corp greed, that's a bad move - you want people to know your platform when they're done studying, so they can advocate for it in
by rf15 3y ago
Even by the standards of blind corp greed, that's a bad move - you want people to know your platform when they're done studying, so they can advocate for it in their jobs. Why would you destroy this revenue stream? Unless they have no longterm vision for VMware and just want to bleed it dry as quickly as possible.
- warriormonk5 3y agoYeah that's the idea. They hold corporations hostage that are slow to move and increase prices.
- rrdharan 3y agoAnd it’s entirely plausible they make enough money from that to buy the next VMware in another decade or so to repeat the cycle. Sustainable bottom feeding as a strategy.
- phpisthebest 3y agoBroadcom looks at Orcale and says "Can I have some of that business model please"... They exist on legacy vendor lockin, and will milk customers until there is nothing left, which will take decades or more
- tsimionescu 3y agoAny student can download and use Oracle DBs and most other products for free legally right from Oracle's sites. This suggests that even Oracle understands how important this pipeline is.
- NikolaNovak 3y agoBut to me, Oracle is the canonical example of getting nerds while they're young. In university, I had access to Oracle databases, Oracle manuals, Oracle Linux, etc. Not through some special university approved lab set up - I could just go and download them. Even their acquired software like PeopleSoft etc. I had NONE of that for DB2 or AIX, for example. And their respective market share, I believe based on no evidence but strong belief, belies that strategy. (disclaimer, I guess - I work for IBM, but ironically as an Oracle consultant... the early access really did work :-)
- phpisthebest 3y agoMany people have talked about this... People do know that oracle has ALOT more software then their DB right? I mean their DB is the least vendor lockin thing they sell.....
- NikolaNovak 3y agoYes, as I said, I spent much of my life around oracle products. Most are freely downloadable for non production purposes.
- mschuster91 3y ago> you want people to know your platform when they're done studying, so they can advocate for it in their jobs. Why would you destroy this revenue stream? That was how Adobe ran for a looooong time, up until and including CS6. They didn't give a f..k about piracy beyond something that could trivially be circumvented by a keygen and a few well-placed /etc/hosts entries, and that was what made them the utterly dominant power in anything creative - people were used to years of working with Photoshop (a friend of mine started with photography at age 13!), and so they demanded from employers that they use Photoshop. Incidentally, that also was what kept Apple afloat before the iPod/iPhone days - Adobe stuff just worked fine on Apple hardware but was a nightmare on Windows, so people also demanded Macs for their work. The advent of CC came once Adobe had achieved that lock-in and started milking its customers for all they were worth, and additionally they opened up a load of legitimate customers as well who didn't feel like dropping a few grand on Adobe stuff but who cares about 50$ a month?
- sturadnidge 3y agoI always thought of Sun as the canonical example of this… why did all the dotcom era startups burn so much cash on Sun hardware? Because that’s what was in the Universities! But on the other hand, look at how that turned out :(
- dehrmann 3y agoThis is different. Most student won't be exposed to datacenter management. It's really just system administrators who see this.
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoVMware is literally taught in schools. My college has a two course program in it.
- callalex 3y agoThat’s still entirely independent of what the school’s mainframes run on.