From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2024-12-02, John Dallman  wrote:   
   > In article , ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence   
   > D'Oliveiro) wrote:   
   >   
   >> . . . a company which switched from VMware to an open-source   
   >> alternative as a result of Broadcom's massive price hikes,   
   >> and encountered an unexpected benefit: the resources consumed   
   >> by system management overhead on the new product were so much   
   >> less, they could run more VMs on the same hardware.   
   >   
   > That will be nice if it happens, but the pricing is a fully sufficient   
   > reason for moving. The way that some companies are seeing 1,000%, while   
   > others see 300% or 500% makes customers very suspicious that Broadcom are   
   > trying to jack up the price as much as each customer will take. If so,   
   > they aren't very good at that.   
   >   
   > My employer was given a special one-off offer of 500% and went "Hell,   
   > no!"   
   >   
      
   Are you sure your employer's response was not a little more Anglo-Saxon   
   in nature ? :-)   
      
   On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute   
   contempt towards their users ? It reminds me of the person who took over   
   supply of a vital medical drug in the US a few years ago and promptly   
   increased the price massively because the users of the drug where a capture   
   market that _needed_ to buy the drug.   
      
   This is so blatant by Broadcom, I'm surprised the EU has not got more   
   seriously involved.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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   Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
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