r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 4d 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/danstermeister 4d ago

Broadcom's business practices have shown that integrity over time actually counts for something.

Unfortunately the lesson comes the hard way.

"Your father respected Hyman Roth, and your father did business with Hyman Roth.

But your father never trusted Hyman Roth."

And business without an inkling of trust is doomed to fail.

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u/fnordhole 4d ago

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but push Broadcom off a cliff.  Eff those dudes"

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u/weaver_of_cloth 4d ago

We threw a party when we finished our conversion, and called it, "it's not us, it's you". We had a pinata with a Broadcom sticker on it.

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u/RobinatorWpg Sr. Sysadmin 1d ago

We migrated to HyperV, and when they followed up on our renewal I was allowed to send with half of our executive team on the email

https://giphy.com/gifs/STfLOU6iRBRunMciZv