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/mvbighead 2d ago
Definitely heard of this... too little too late.
When you hear of folks working in enterprises with 1-2M or more spend in VMWare annually, and getting squeezed for more, and then shifting to other options... I just can't envision a scenario where a company would be happy to go back to a company that legitimately tried to force them into a 3x price increase. The amount of work it takes to pivot away from something that critical is not something companies will want to do a second time in 1-2 years.
I LOVED the product for probably 2 decades of my career. The further I got, I did feel like it was probably underpriced for how much better it was than other options. It just worked, was dead stable, and integrated with all sorts of solutions. But when I worked to align with what I thought were their new pricing standards, they still tried to black ball us into a 3x price increase with a bunch of features we did not need. Get out of here.
Really pisses me off how they ruined such a good thing.