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Yeah, Broadcom is basically just gutting VMWare's "cash cow" status because they think they will make more in the long run (they wont). However, this WILL cause people to move to stuff like proxmox which will vastly increase their funding and as such give them a larger warchest to develop and improve.

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>Broadcom has accused Allstate Insurance of dodging a software license audit that the insurer claims only happened after it decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Those two Broadcom business units – CA and VMware – have brought copyright infringement lawsuits against Allstate. The CA suit, filed in May 2025, alleges that the insurer breached contracts after the sale of its Employer Voluntary Benefits business to an outfit called StanCorp. The VMware suit, filed in December 2025, alleges that Allstate didn’t comply with contract terms that required it to participate in license audits.

Yeah, Broadcom is basically just gutting VMWare's "cash cow" status because they think they will make more in the long run (they wont). However, this WILL cause people to move to stuff like proxmox which will vastly increase their funding and as such give them a larger warchest to develop and improve. Archive: https://archive.today/D46dR From the post: >>Broadcom has accused Allstate Insurance of dodging a software license audit that the insurer claims only happened after it decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Those two Broadcom business units – CA and VMware – have brought copyright infringement lawsuits against Allstate. The CA suit, filed in May 2025, alleges that the insurer breached contracts after the sale of its Employer Voluntary Benefits business to an outfit called StanCorp. The VMware suit, filed in December 2025, alleges that Allstate didn’t comply with contract terms that required it to participate in license audits.
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Broadcom has been fucking everyone in the ass over VMware. Oracle has been fucking with people too. We had to dump every instance of Oracle JRE and JDK for Adoptium's because of their shit. Back to VMware, no one I know is happy at all and they think existing contracts will protect them but Allstate may have shown that could be false.

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Yeah, we went through a massive "purge Oracle" thing like 6+ months ago. The decided the contract required like 30x more cost than it had before without any changes to usage.

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I had made the suggestion we completely dump Oracle DB wholesale and they say that is the plan but when the beancounters come along they claim Azure will nickel and dime it to be more expensive.