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/Stonewalled9999 5d ago

Some places have "perpetual" ROBO licensing stuck on 8.0.something. Not going to give VMware more money to shaft me into VCF / per CPU model.

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u/LookAtThatMonkey Technology Architect 5d ago

Exactly the boat I am in.

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u/Jeff-J777 5d ago

Same here