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European hosting provider moves 12,000 virtual machines from VMWare/Broadcom to open source
Anexia, a service provider in Austria, used to pay VMWare a month in arrears. Broadcom wanted a two year contract - paid a year in advance. This was completely untenable, and potentially ruinous, to Anexia. So they reworked their infrastructure to open source. And their customer base was entirely supportive, having seen what Broadcom was doing to all of the VMWare customers.
Anexia owns another services provider that runs an open source VM platform with the management abstracted behind their own interface. They also used this interface for their VMWare clients, so all they had to do to cut over their VMWare people was for them to basically click a button. Their VMWare servers would shut down under VMWare then spool up moments later under KVM and the conversion was complete as KVM could read the file formats of VMWare.
A quote from the Anexia CEO: “I do not believe Broadcom will be successful,” he told The Register. “They lost all the trust. I have talked to so many VMware customers and they say they cannot work with a company like that.” The Register estimated that Anexia's licensing price increase from Broadcom's acquisition of VMWare would have been approximately 500%.
Anexia is far from the first hosting provider who has done something like this, I just haven't been bothering to post a lot about this. This Register story was nice and concise, so I went with this one. Unless Broadcom changes course very quickly, this is going to be an albatross around their neck.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/
Anexia owns another services provider that runs an open source VM platform with the management abstracted behind their own interface. They also used this interface for their VMWare clients, so all they had to do to cut over their VMWare people was for them to basically click a button. Their VMWare servers would shut down under VMWare then spool up moments later under KVM and the conversion was complete as KVM could read the file formats of VMWare.
A quote from the Anexia CEO: “I do not believe Broadcom will be successful,” he told The Register. “They lost all the trust. I have talked to so many VMware customers and they say they cannot work with a company like that.” The Register estimated that Anexia's licensing price increase from Broadcom's acquisition of VMWare would have been approximately 500%.
Anexia is far from the first hosting provider who has done something like this, I just haven't been bothering to post a lot about this. This Register story was nice and concise, so I went with this one. Unless Broadcom changes course very quickly, this is going to be an albatross around their neck.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/anexia_vmware_to_kvm_migration/
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Oh, good, it wasn’t just me…
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:-) Good point!
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/2081112/unity-walks-back-new-engine-pricing-after-protests.html
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"Oh, but OUR product is completely different! That won't happen to us!" Overlooking the competing product works exceeding well and is pretty much free, well, sure!
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