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VMWare basically owned the virtualization market back then. They got greedy and fucked up and it pushed a shit load of companies away from them. That keeps happening when companies pull shit like this. Short term gains for massive long term losses.

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>According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but "the majority" of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported.

I dropped vmware of RHEV way back when they tried to change from "per socket" to "per core" licensing. Saved a TON of money from that. It took a little while to migrate everything but it was worth it in the end. VMWare basically owned the virtualization market back then. They got greedy and fucked up and it pushed a shit load of companies away from them. That keeps happening when companies pull shit like this. Short term gains for massive long term losses. Archive: https://archive.today/A3xPS From the post: >>According to a report from The Register today, Beeks Group, a cloud operator headquartered in the United Kingdom, has moved most of its 20,000-plus virtual machines (VMs) off VMware and to OpenNebula, an open source cloud and edge computing platform. Beeks Group sells virtual private servers and bare metal servers to financial service providers. It still has some VMware VMs, but "the majority" of its machines are currently on OpenNebula, The Register reported.

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Amex got out of VMWare because of rising costs and refusal to implement features being requested by a $30M / Yr customer. That was 18. They still have a VMWare footprint, for legacy virtual machines, but the cloud and modern stuff went to Openstack.

We moved 15K VMs from VMware to OS that year.

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You know you fucked up when a client decides to spend the time, money, hardware, manpower to migrate 15k VM's to a completely different system that is your competitor.

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Not sure if I'd throw it all on the feet of VMware. They got bought by venture capital the sold to Dell who financially raped the company, then sold the current Broadcom who is doing the same thing.

Kind of a shame because like beaudacious said, they owned the market back in the day.

My company still runs it but only because we signed a renewal right before they started jacking the prices up.

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