The $69 Billion Software Disaster No One Is Talking About

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• LO

  @LogicallyAnswered · 8 days ago · pinned

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• CA

  @caesarHQ · 8 days ago

  buying a 69b company just to hand out cease and desists for basic security patches is peak corporate clown behavior

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• TH

  @thefoolishhiker3103 · 8 days ago

  This explains why a year or so back our IT department dropped every other goal to migrate everything off VMware.

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• IG

  @iggyboo · 8 days ago

  This is how you know a company is too big. They literally bought a tech that runs most of everything and then has enough money and power to just say FU to all their customers including the government

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• DO

  @doctorlolchicken7478 · 8 days ago

  I suspect it&apos;s a case of regulators and government officials just not understanding what the product was.

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• UN

  @undecidedmiddleground5633 · 8 days ago

  I am the primary contact to a VMWare-now-Broadcom customer. I had a 3-year support with perpetual license. VMWare was pretty cool about everything. However, the angry emails I received about my support expiration were downright threatening. I had to bite the bullet and extend my license with their BS non-perpetual license for a year to prep my migration to something else. I won&apos;t go into what, but it has been a ride. The worst correlation is the current 4-10x cost for server hardware.

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• QC

  @qcca123-f1v · 7 days ago

  An object lesson in why friends don&apos;t let friends use proprietary software for anything important. &nbsp;It&apos;s always at most one acquisition away from insanity.

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• IA

  @iamthemurray16 · 8 days ago

  Its funny because att being the monopoly that it is fighting against another monoloply is just the chefs kiss of irony

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• BA

  @barapatan · 8 days ago

  Broadcom has single-handedly increased the workload of every IT shop. If your IT department hasn&apos;t jumped to another product or are in the middle of doing it, they&apos;ve more than likely spoken about keeping that option open. Broadcom&apos;s license price increases are absolutely BRUTAL.

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• MO

  @moneytalkscapital · 7 days ago

  That 1,050% proposed increase is absolutely wild. How does a customer even plan for that?

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• MI

  @MicrophonicFool · 8 days ago

  It&apos;s not like enterprise VMWare licenses were cheap to begin with.

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• GE

  @GeorgiiGrogan · 7 days ago

  Using VMware was ridiculous a decade ago. So stupid departments get shown why being stupid isn&apos;t cheap. Pay for dumb engineers who only know how to use VMware, pay 10x the price. Get good engineers, use FOSS

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