Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vmware-amid-broadcoms-abusive-conduct/
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Buffalox@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 51d
If you use proprietary software you don't own it. no matter how much you legally licensed it. So this is what you always risk.
But fuck Broadcom for being worse than average bordering on illegal.
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 35 pts · 51d
Agreed. Fuck Broadcom.
But I sure hope the "unnamed" virtualization software that they're migrating to is FOSS, otherwise they're going to inevitably run into this problem again.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 51d
Exactly.
Tanoh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 51d
And will they donate back even one percent of the fees they would have paid so the open source software can be maintained. Naaaaaah!
dgriffith@aussie.zone · 29 pts · 51d
Broadcom's tactic here is to dump the little fish, keep the whales. Then rake in that revenue for very little effort in support and development until budget proposals showing better alternatives are written, enterprise capital expenditure cycles around to the next refresh, and the whales finally go elsewhere.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 51d
Broadcom told ATT to pay up or fuck off. I’m seriously surprised. Broadcom has done more for all other virtualization platforms than anyone else in history.
Proxmox usage alone exploded nearly overnight. Nutanix has been printing money.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 50d
For people, businesses looking for an alternative there is XCPng + Xen Orchestra, by Vates, a French company selling support for their otherwise FOSS stack if I understand correctly. They've truly built something very well designed with an explicit migration path from vmware.
I'm not affiliated but I did explore it for my homelab. At the time they didn't yet have a stable ZFS support, which they do now, so I went a different route but it's really matured and they are good stewards of FOSS with monthly streams to discuss their changes and with a blog about their objectives.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjvBiVTxBt-madrH2Kt7iA
https://vates.tech/
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/
https://vates.tech/blog/migrating-from-vmware-or-hyper-v-to-vates-vms/
blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 50d
We are about to dump them. Large us enterprise with a significant deployment.
Hello openstack.