This is what happens when you do something fucking stupid with your licensing AGAIN. You didn't learn the first time and you won't learn this time.
VMWare used to be the industry standard for VM Infra and they changed their license to be per core not per socket. I personally moved a LOT of VM's off their infra after that onto new hardware and a different system that cost vastly less and still was sufficient for the workload.
Facebook did the same thing. Part of how OpenStack got so popular was because VMWare did a massive cash grab and they got fucked in the end because everyone laughed at their new multi million dollar cost hike and told them to fuck off and die.
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>Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor. Anexia was founded in 2006, is based in Austria, and provides cloud services from over 100 locations around the world by placing equipment in third party datacenters. Clients include remote access and control vendor TeamViewer, and airline Lufthansa -- plus plenty more outfits that need reliable hosting and service to match.
This is what happens when you do something fucking stupid with your licensing AGAIN. You didn't learn the first time and you won't learn this time.
VMWare used to be the industry standard for VM Infra and they changed their license to be per core not per socket. I personally moved a LOT of VM's off their infra after that onto new hardware and a different system that cost vastly less and still was sufficient for the workload.
Facebook did the same thing. Part of how OpenStack got so popular was because VMWare did a massive cash grab and they got fucked in the end because everyone laughed at their new multi million dollar cost hike and told them to fuck off and die.
Archive: https://archive.today/ZJUfz
From the post:
>>Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor. Anexia was founded in 2006, is based in Austria, and provides cloud services from over 100 locations around the world by placing equipment in third party datacenters. Clients include remote access and control vendor TeamViewer, and airline Lufthansa -- plus plenty more outfits that need reliable hosting and service to match.
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