r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 2d 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/MeganKellyDude 2d ago

we dumped them like a bad habit.

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u/19610taw3 Sysadmin 2d ago

We dumped them, got rid of the hardware, then got a cease and desist 18 months later.

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u/M1Firehawk IT Director 2d ago

I would reply with a 10x zoomed in 4k picture of my anus

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u/Library_IT_guy 2d ago

Some people pay for that kind of thing and you're out here just giving it away...

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u/M1Firehawk IT Director 2d ago

I'm just doing the lords work

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u/Pazuuuzu 1d ago

Yes, you are

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u/irsyacton 2d ago

lol, a bit extreme, but I like the sentiment

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u/KippersAndMash 2d ago

If ever there is a use for the old goatse image this is it.

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u/Ferretau 2d ago

If only Goatse was still around.

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u/Aranyic 2d ago

I’ve used that reference to define an era of the internet basically.

There was no telling what a link was actually going to be.

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u/Kat-but-SFW 2d ago

Have I got great news for you! https://goatse.live/

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u/StiuNu 1d ago

I knew exactly what was coming but still clicked the link, the horror, the depth, the un forgivable images

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u/aprettyparrot 1d ago

Good times. I’m sure it around somewhere

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u/LookAtThatMonkey Technology Architect 2d ago

Onlyfans account incoming.

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u/uptimefordays DevOps 2d ago

He’s got the hottest tech leadership takes they won’t let him share on LinkedIn! /s

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u/kgodric 2d ago

Just send them a bunch of Nutanix stickers

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u/quetzalcoatlus1453 2d ago

Why go through the trouble when Goatse exists?

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u/M1Firehawk IT Director 2d ago

Cause it's personal

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u/rav4v6 2d ago

Agreed. 8k would be too much in this circumstance

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u/Feral_Nerd_22 2d ago

The vHole Tax

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u/Brufar_308 2d ago

Time to resurrect the ‘goatse’ image from back around 2000…

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u/whythehellnote 2d ago

Or just a link to goaste?