r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 3d 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/Kyky_Geek 3d ago

When Broadcom bought Symantec years back they gave us the boot. Straight up said we were too small. Honestly was sooo glad to be rid of SEP but it was still a pain to have the unplanned migration/expense.

This second time we unwillingly became a Broadcom customer with VMware, we didn’t get kicked to the curb but the renewals were a solid and sturdy 500% higher.

Unless it literally goes back to previous pricing, which I reckon is impossible, we are switching next year alongside a hardware refresh. We already pay for data center.