cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32641679
Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.
Open Nebula is apparently their new platform of choice,
Never heard of it.
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Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.
One of my biggest pet peeves with corporate websites. It’s like they’re afraid that clearly stating what they do will prevent them from growing and doing other things as well. So instead they refuse to say anything coherent.
I think marketing graduates don’t actually research their products anymore. It’s mostly irrelevant.
If they did having something like a “product Spotlight” that rotates through some modules on their main product would solve this problem.
I’m glad VMWare overplayed their hand and lost.
it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.
What do they care? They can lose 1000 customers with this change before it affects them, and if they lose 1999 customers then they’re still ahead.
Broadcom doesn’t care. They exploit the lag time for very large companies to switch. In that time, they can set prices as high as they want, because the company won’t go without licenses or support.
Yes, short term they will probably make a lot of money despite losing market share. But long term, it is one proprietary dependency that will be forever gone, unless open sourced.
I can’t tell if this is a paid-for article by OpenNebula or what. It reads that way.
We were a medium-sized VMware client, roughly 4000 VMs. We’re almost done migrating to Nutanix.
Sadly not open source, but less money towards Broadcom is a good thing overall.
Isn’t nutanix licensed the same way more or less?
