VMware Kills Off 56 Products

https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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Rixster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What the flying fuck?

baldturkeyleg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Indeed. This is what happens when Broadcom shows up.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y

The good ol' hack & slash, 80's style

UID_Zero@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Holy shit.

We've invested heavily in vSAN over the past few years, and use or are looking at a few of those tools. I guess 'were looking at' is a better term now.

You had a good run, VMware, but apparently it's fucking over now.

grayman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

As soon as the purchase was made public the fortune 50 company I work for ran as fast as possible to VARs looking for alternatives. It will take us 5 years to migrate off, but I've never seen such a universal desire to jump to another product inside a company this large. Broadcom is universally known to do nothing but milk and kill what they aquire.

000@fuck.markets · 1 pts · 2y

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168

These products are not being scrapped, they're ending perpetual licensing. Broadcom wants all customers under a subscription model to milk the most money out of them.