Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

Compared to something like proxmox? Sure.

It takes a long time to change corporate mindset.

Comments like this are a sign of someone living in a bubble.

Eh, it's still the least hassle at scale for your own data centers and VCF 9 isn't exactly low tech - it does things no one else really can do to the same level of quality (DRS, HCX, NSX, VSAN all come to mind) , the question is, is it worth the money? Unless you're over 10,000 VMs, probably not.

OpenShift is okay but has quirks unless you have a major Kubernetes staff; Proxmox is good for most but I wouldn't use at massive scale. Azure Stack/ Hyper-V can work but has its own quirks.

Broadcom doesn't care. They just want to milk VMware for all it's worth to goose their short-term profits.

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1. Tesco is migrating off

2. Tesco had a good deal they paid for ahead of time, with the full support cycle detailed in the contract that Broadcom is refusing to honor.

3. Broadcom is arguing that since Tesco is migrating off, they can't sue for damages. Tesco would probably counter argue that the migration is due to Broadcom not honoring the original contract.

There is always some dependency which would be devastating to lose. Maybe it is VMWare, maybe it is your Oracle database, could be your Visa payment processor. Sometimes you have to accept the risk and move on without owning your own copper mine so as to smelt chips.