Hacker News with Generative AI: VMware

VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers (theregister.com)
Broadcom has upped VMware licensing costs by between eight to 15 times since it took over the organization, and a lack of alternatives in the tech industry means trade and end customers have no choice but to play ball.

Business, Technology, Pricing, VMware, Broadcom

9 points by rntn 1 day ago | 4 comments

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed.

Software, Business, Legal, VMware, Broadcom

9 points by croes 14 days ago | 0 comments

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed.

VMware, Business, Legal, Software, Licensing

12 points by turtlegrids 15 days ago | 1 comments

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed.

Software, Business, Legal, VMware, Broadcom

78 points by stalfosknight 16 days ago | 25 comments

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor (theregister.com)
VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.

Virtualization, Software, VMware, Free Software

13 points by speckx 39 days ago | 5 comments

VMware says Siemens pirated "thousands" of copies of its software (arstechnica.com)
VMware is suing the US arm of industrial giant AG Siemens. The Broadcom company claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed multiple copies of VMware products without buying a license.

Software Piracy, Lawsuit, VMware, Siemens, Industrial Technology

6 points by elorant 51 days ago | 0 comments

Broadcom raises minimum requirement for VMware licenses: from 16 to 72 cores (techzine.eu)
Broadcom is significantly increasing the minimum requirement for VMware licenses. According to VMware distributor Arrow, the minimum number of required cores per command line will increase from 16 to 72 as of April 10.

Software, Licensing, VMware, Broadcom

6 points by prtaylor 55 days ago | 0 comments

VMware turns its back on small businesses: 72-core license policy backlash (systemadministration.net)
VMware by Broadcom has officially declared war on small and mid-sized businesses with the rollout of its new licensing policy, set to take effect this April.

Software, Licensing, Business, VMware, Cloud Computing

47 points by walterbell 61 days ago | 38 comments

Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle (theregister.com)
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware appears to be a big success, on the balance sheet at least, after the company announced a big majority of its top 10,000 customers have decided to acquire its Cloud Foundation stack and posted strong growth.

Business, Acquisitions, Technology, Cloud Computing, VMware

20 points by rntn 77 days ago | 9 comments

Threat posed by new VMware hyperjacking vulnerabilities is hard to overstate (arstechnica.com)
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers’ networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday.

Cybersecurity, VMware, Vulnerabilities, Security Research

7 points by jnord 80 days ago | 0 comments

Euro-cloud provider Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform (theregister.com)
Broadcom has lost another large customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source system based on the KVM hypervisor.

Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, VMware, KVM

274 points by xbmcuser 130 days ago | 104 comments

Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, VMware 'limited engagement' (theregister.com)
Tech distribution behemoth Ingram Micro will stop doing business with Broadcom and its VMware range in many territories next year.

Business, Technology, Acquisitions, Distribution, VMware

3 points by rntn 157 days ago | 0 comments

Broadcom is making some major changes to stop VMware exodus (techradar.com)

Broadcom, VMware, Technology, Business, Acquisitions

11 points by glitchcrab 167 days ago | 4 comments

Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival (arstechnica.com)
Some customers are waving good-bye to Broadcom's VMware.

Open Source, VMware, Business, Software, Pricing

206 points by elorant 171 days ago | 196 comments

VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone (theverge.com)
VMware made its Fusion and Workstation software that creates and manages virtual machines free for personal use earlier this year. Now, the company announced that as of Monday, it’s free for everyone, including commercial customers. Also, the Fusion (for Macs) and Workstation (for Windows and Linux) Pro versions are no longer available for purchase.

Software, Virtual Machines, Free Software, VMware

5 points by Tomte 192 days ago | 1 comments

VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users (vmware.com)
We’re thrilled to announce a significant change that reflects our commitment to making VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation more accessible than ever. Starting November 11, 2024, these powerful desktop hypervisor products will be available for free to everyone—commercial, educational, and personal users alike.

Software, Virtualization, VMware, Free Software

79 points by WalterSobchak 193 days ago | 47 comments

VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM (phoronix.com)
This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualization needs moving forward.

Virtualization, Linux, Open Source, VMware, KVM

52 points by neitsab 204 days ago | 42 comments

VMware Accused of Breaching Anti-Trust Laws in Japan (yomiuri.co.jp)
クラウドサービスに必要なソフトウェアを販売する際、不要な製品も購入させたなどとして、公正取引委員会は２５日、半導体大手「ブロードコム」（米国）の子会社「ＶＭウェア」（東京都港区）に独占禁止法違反（不公正な取引方法）の疑いで立ち入り検査を始めた。

Antitrust, Japan, Cloud Computing, Software, VMware

4 points by coolandsmartrr 241 days ago | 0 comments

Research suggests more than half of VMware customers are looking to move (theregister.com)
Research published by Civo indicates that more than half of VMware customers are considering leaving the platform under Broadcom's ownership.

VMware, Cloud Computing, Business, Technology

96 points by rntn 254 days ago | 70 comments

AT&T Sues Broadcom over VMware Contracts 'Bullying' (channelfutures.com)

Lawsuits, Business, Technology, VMware

58 points by doctorshady 261 days ago | 21 comments

VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use (vmware.com)

Software, Virtualization, Free Software, VMware

332 points by ganoushoreilly 374 days ago | 174 comments

VMware outsourcing their support (rubenerd.com)

VMware, Outsourcing, Support

115 points by kryster 391 days ago | 60 comments

Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO [video] (theregister.com)

Cloud Computing, Business, VMware, Broadcom

28 points by mooreds 404 days ago | 51 comments