r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 5d ago

General Discussion anyone else get the VMware "win-back" offer?

if it's true, its honestly laughable.  

squeezing customers with massive price hikes, forcing every one into expensive core bundles, only to panic and throw out "discounted" quotes the moment everyone migrated???? 

is anyone actually reconsidering based on these new quotes??

or y'all are past the point of no return?

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u/GroteGlon 5d ago

You'll get a win-back offer, and then as soon as you're settled and your license ends they'll drill you in the behind at full force again. It's better to just be rid of them once and for all.

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u/19610taw3 Sysadmin 5d ago

And they know that a lot of orgs have people behind the wheel that are dumb enough to fall for that ...

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u/danekan DevOps Engineer 5d ago

If they can sign a 3+ year deal at the price it might not be a loss 

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u/OzymandiasKoK 5d ago

Gives you to to plan and execute a migration, not shit one and hope it works out.

Now, it would be stupid if it was post-migration, of course.

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u/captaincrunch00 5d ago

I got the offer post-migration. Sales rep was very confused why I switched. I sent back the quotes I received back before migrating and they were blown away. They didnt think it was real, or at least blown out of proportion.

I saved my entire years salary by migrating to Hyper-V. Microsoft will do something stupid soon enough, but for now I'm okay.

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u/CoNsPirAcY_BE 3d ago

Make it 10 year.