Repercussions are a bitch.
Repercussions are a bitch.
VMWare was a great lesson in what NOT to do when you "own the market". They changed their licensing because $$$$ and it massively exploded in their faces giving a ton of $$$$ to the companies that were having a hard time to keep up with them basically spelling their end. Who knows how much longer they will hold on but most "big" companies have already given up on them and moved on to alternatives.
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>UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped. Court documents seen by The Register assert that in January 2021 Tesco acquired perpetual licenses for VMware’s vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla’s Tanzu products, and agreed a contract for support services and software upgrades that run until 2026. Tesco claims VMware also agreed to give it an option to extend support services for an additional four years.
VMWare was a great lesson in what NOT to do when you "own the market". They changed their licensing because $$$$ and it massively exploded in their faces giving a ton of $$$$ to the companies that were having a hard time to keep up with them basically spelling their end. Who knows how much longer they will hold on but most "big" companies have already given up on them and moved on to alternatives.
Archive: https://archive.today/jyff4
From the post:
>>UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped.
Court documents seen by The Register assert that in January 2021 Tesco acquired perpetual licenses for VMware’s vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla’s Tanzu products, and agreed a contract for support services and software upgrades that run until 2026. Tesco claims VMware also agreed to give it an option to extend support services for an additional four years.
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