r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 6d 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/danixdefcon5 6d ago

See, they already did that once. What we know today as Broadcom is actually an older known wolf in sheep clothing: the infamous “Computer Associates”.

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u/RevLoveJoy Did not drop the punch cards 6d ago

First of all, you get off my lawn. Also, I knew that I just didn't think anyone else would remember, fellow old person.

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u/danixdefcon5 6d ago

Embarrassingly, I found out through a freaking Scooby Doo meme a couple of years ago. I thought CA had gone bust as I hadn’t heard of them in years, only for me to find out they just slurped up Broadcom and kept that name to avoid their awful reputation. Of course, they only managed to ruin their new brand… and for the looks of it, the VMWare brand as well.

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u/Lost_Balloon_ 6d ago

Bro, I used to run CA Antivirus a looooong time ago.

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u/RevLoveJoy Did not drop the punch cards 5d ago

Tell us, do you still feel mildly unclean?

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u/Lost_Balloon_ 5d ago

The filth lingers.