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Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32641679

Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m glad VMWare overplayed their hand and lost.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on what your metrics are. If they are for longevity and long-term business health, sure.

But I don't think that's how they're measuring success. They are maximizing shareholder value in the short term, and any medium to long-term problems will be concerns for another set of C-Suite vultures as the current ones will have already moved on, or retired with their golden parachutes.