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From El Reg: AT&T sues Broadcom over VMWare support

How do you side and think this will play out?

  • I don't like AT&T... but I don't like Broadcom either, I hope they spend years in costly court cases

    Votes: 2 25.0%

  • AT&T for the win... Broadcom are glorified tech bro trolls

    Votes: 4 50.0%

  • AT&T suck... Broadcom for the win and give them the same treatment AT&T give their normal customers

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dude I don't care

    Votes: 2 25.0%
  • Total voters
    8
Vincero

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Link to article:
www.theregister.com

AT&T sues Broadcom for breach of VMware support deal

Telco giant slams silicon-and-software shop for trying to bully it into buying software it doesn't want or need, at huge prices
www.theregister.com www.theregister.com

US telecoms giant AT&T has alleged Broadcom has reneged on an extended support deal it struck with VMware, and warned the consequences could be massive outages for customer support operations – and even the US president's office.
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I don't fully buy in to AT&T's doom and gloom assessment of things, but about time at least one of their (VMWare's) big customers finally pulled the trigger and took action against them.

I can't believe I'm about to say this - I think I can taste a bit of sick.... ok breath.... ok... - but I hope that AT&T win... not that it will save the current direction VMWare is headed - Broadcom will end up doing a better job killing them off for profit than any of the other VM/Hypervisor software solutions could have done through normal competition.
 
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I hope they both burn. VMware can smd with there contracts and like 300% price hikes. Couldn’t migrate off that cluster fast enough.
 
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Solaris17 said:
I hope they both burn. VMware can smd with there contracts and like 300% price hikes. Couldn’t migrate off that cluster fast enough.
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obviously you did not "go all-in on Cloud Foundation", otherwise you would have "emerge with reduced costs and agile private clouds that represent competitive advantage."
 
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dirtyferret said:
obviously you did not "go all-in on Cloud Foundation", otherwise you would have "emerge with reduced costs and agile private clouds that represent competitive advantage."
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Damn your right; if only I had spent more.
 
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Solaris17 said:
Damn your right; if only I had spent more.
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Where have I heard that before.... somewhere equally cash-grabby.... oh yes...

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I hope VMWare Workstation survives. I've been using it since version 2 and it's worked pretty well.
 
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Vincero said:
Where have I heard that before.... somewhere equally cash-grabby.... oh yes...
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It's a proven fact* that by boosting your performance tier you can help minimize expenditure.

*We are "legally" obligated to state there are no facts that substantiate that claim...but if there were you better believe it would!

In all seriousness my neighbor used to work for VMware
 
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