This is already the case in at least some large, boring businesses. Think like bank IT departments. There’s a whole generation of CTOs out there whose mentors g

This is already the case in at least some large, boring businesses. Think like bank IT departments. There’s a whole generation of CTOs out there whose mentors got fucked over when Oracle pulled almost the exact move that Broadcom is pulling with VMware. Some of those people have billion dollar budgets and serious religion about OSS. I kinda don’t think it’d be possible to build a business like VMware’s today tbh. Certainly not after Broadcom is done with them. I think the thing to watch here is Tanzu. In theory most of the software under that brand has an off ramp onto some other vendor. It’d be painful (ripping OpsManager out of a TAS installation is no joke) but basically straightforward technically for the right person at the right price.