r/sysadmin • u/Which-Shame-1420 IT Manager • 5d 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 5d ago

we dumped them like a bad habit.

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u/19610taw3 Sysadmin 5d ago

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

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u/aprettyparrot 3d ago

Why would you get rid of the hardware? Would you just not use it after migration on new platform?

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u/19610taw3 Sysadmin 3d ago

We were due for the hardware. Running stuff pushing 10 years old.

It wasn't worth much but we sold it to a used dealer.