Broadcom is taking advantage of the fact that most CIOs are forced to be pretty spineless. If you are big and willing to badmouth then in public, they will come

Broadcom is taking advantage of the fact that most CIOs are forced to be pretty spineless. If you are big and willing to badmouth then in public, they will come to the table. There was at least one US state that did so iirc. Otherwise, pay the tax with minimum commit, and don’t allow creation of new VMs. they essentially created a business model that writes the justification for AWS or GCP. When companies flip to rent extraction business models, you need to change how you treat the business relationship. VMWare is like an incandescent light bulb… if the cost of re-platforming and availability of resources makes it cost effective to move, you move.