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“We want to focus on keeping our large customers”

Loses large customers

Surprised pikachu face

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

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

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Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”

Interesting way to word “we charged as much as we could possibly get away with”

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That analyst doesn’t work for Broadcom; it’s a third party. It could say, “they charged as much as they could possibly get away with” but I think “prices just below the pain threshold” is stronger language in a business setting.

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Nearly the strongest possible language I can imagine being used.

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To be fair, this is what every single company is doing right now. Stallman tried to warn you!

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112 points

Good.

My VPS provider also migrated away from VMWare - got an email saying VMs would be down temporarily during the move, and the main website no longer contains any references to the virtualization tech. I miss my /64 IPV6 😭 but i’ll happily give that up if it means Broadcom’s dumpster fire comes crashing down as big customers pull the plug and migrate

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Would guess that they probably migrated to proxmox

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I know several large companies looking to Microsoft, Xen, and Proxmox. Though the smart ones are more interested in the open source solutions to avoid future rug-pulls.

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Xen looks great for VPS stuff, and seemed to have good support for vGPUs. That’s what I’d choose as a provider. I wish I used it at home but I ended up going with good ol’ Linux KVM for USB and PCI support.

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6 points

Nutanix is another one.

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110 points

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

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Phase 1: Fuck around

Phase 2: Find out

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Phase 3: Say you’ve changed to earn some good will

Phase 4: Fucking do it again

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“We just love our customers so much, it makes us crazy sometimes…”

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“I don’t want to lose you but the shareholders make me do it.”

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