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everything is a hypervisor these days so I'm not seeing a problem for anyone who isn't Broadcom.

• fred_is_fred 2y ago
  The Fortune 500 have 20 years of tooling, people, configs, setup etc in VmWare. It is a big deal for them to switch, it's also a big deal for them to pay 10x.
  • riffic 2y ago
    I pity the giganto-corps. Everyone saw this coming though.
    • bluGill 2y ago
      Including [many of] the big corps. However if it takes 5 years to migrate and your current contract is for 3 more years that leaves 2 years of higher prices.
• danudey 2y ago
  The problem is paying the hugely inflated prices Broadcom's price gouging renegotiations are demanding, while also finding money to fund migrating off of VMWare for your infrastructure. A lot of companies out there (Canonical's OpenStack, RH's OpenShift) are so swamped with customers wanting to migrate off of VMWare that they can't keep up, meaning a lot of companies are going to have to keep paying VMWare while they wait in the migration queue.