It was a dumb move. They had a niche market cornered, (serious) enterprises with on-prem infrastructure. Sure, it was the standard back in the late 2000’s to host virtualization on-prem but since then, the only people who have not outsourced infrastructure hosting to cloud providers, have reasons not to, including financial reasons. The cloud is not cheaper than self-hosting, serverless applications can be more expensive, storage and bandwidth is more limited, and performance is worse. Good example of this is openai vs ollama on-prem. Ollama is 10,000x cheaper, even when you include initial buy-in.

Let VMware fail. At this point they are worth more as a lesson to the industry, turn on your users and we will turn on you.

But not before causing 2+ years of tedious previously-unnecessary migration work. Thanks a lot assholes.

I mean, i knew already that Broadcom is bad at software.

We got the fuck out as soon as the writing was on the wall. Wait, you want me to pay how much for VMware with new features other than using all my cores?

Well let’s look at my options, proxmox is 2.5% of my VMware price? Jesus…

This change doesn’t even have anything to do with customers as far as I can tell? Sounds like they pissed off their resellers by cutting them out of deals with their biggest accounts, and are regretting burning all those bridges.