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To add an insult to the injury, Broadcom totally wrecked the update process for existing VMware installations. They killed update servers and domains, everythin
by garganzol 1y ago
To add an insult to the injury, Broadcom totally wrecked the update process for existing VMware installations. They killed update servers and domains, everything is annihilated.
A cherry on the top: you need to pass a quest of registrations and approvals before you ever be able to have an opportunity to get access to any VMware software download. Good luck updating your software, folks.
- RiverCrochet 1y agoI wanted to update to the latest version of the free VMWare Workstation, and since the auto updating didn't work anymore I tried to go to the Broadcom site to see if I could manually download it. I was able to get to a download page for the latest version after making an account and traversing some confusing stuff, but it did want my real name and address before it would give me the download.
- chuckadams 1y agoBroadcom seems really determined to drive everyone away from VMWare at this point. I think they looked at pre-1990's IBM that locked everything up into service contracts top to bottom and decided that would be their business model. Makes Oracle look like GNU by comparison.
- stackskipton 1y ago> Broadcom seems really determined to drive everyone away from VMWare at this point. They are but this a shit ton of money to be earned while doing so. VMWare is so cemented at companies that migration for many is going to be almost impossible. >pre-1990's IBM that locked everything up into service contracts top to bottom IBM still has a ton of those service contracts. It's small amount of their overall revenue but it's not nothing. 10 years from now, big F500 will still be on VMware paying insane amounts of money.