14 points

Why do people still use VMware? It’s not 2012 anymore.

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Because up until Broadcom bought them, it was a good product with a ton of useful features, endless supported integrations with 3rd party software and hardware, relatively easy to learn/use, with good support, all at reasonable and flexible price points depending on your needs.

Of course Broadcom has now thrown all of that into the toilet…

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Because if you throw enough money at them, they’ll trip over themselves trying to fix your production critical issue in 4 hours or less, and that’s valuable to business because they get to go “it’s not our fault the site was down and we lost $2 million, it’s our vendor’s support team that was inadequate”

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7 points

Yeah, at a certain scale you’re not paying for the technology… you’re paying for a scapegoat.

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“We want to focus on keeping our large customers”

Loses large customers

Surprised pikachu face

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30 points

It’s entirely possible that 24,000 VM’s didn’t count as “large” by VMWare standards.

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10 points

We want to focus on keeping milking our large customers until they can find an alternative to us

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13 points

pikachu.jpg

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110 points

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions

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We rent our servers from Ionos and price hike came as a complete surprise. Luckily Ionos took some of the increase on themselves, but had I been ready with different provider I’d switch in a blink. It seems price hike was a surprise to Ionos as well and am sure as hell hoping they are working on adding another hypervisor.

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