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

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Before reading it: they don't pay.

Now I'll read and hope to be proven wrong.

Edit: not a word about paying for a license from OpenNebula :/ OpenNebula does have enterprise subscriptions, but I wonder if Beeks Group is actually paying, or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Open source doesn't mean free by default.

[–] sukhmel 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, but many consider it this way