Some VMware customers reported quotes up 1,500%. 90% of CIOs polled weigh alternatives.
VMware is the software many companies use to run their servers as virtual machines.
Since Broadcom bought it, licence costs have often risen 50% to 200%, CIO.com reported on 16 October. In some cases, customers reported quotes that would raise prices by 1,500%.
A survey for Rimini Street found that 90% of CIOs at current VMware customers are weighing alternatives because of those costs. Over half named Broadcom's end of support for perpetual licences, the kind bought once and kept, as a major reason. About two-thirds are considering outside support.
Leaving is not cheap. Switching costs can take three to five years to recover, CIO.com reported. "You don't want to jump from one frying pan to another," said Joe Locandro, Rimini Street's CIO.
A VMware spokesman declined to respond to the survey results.
Rimini Street sells the outside support that two-thirds of those polled say they are considering. CIO.com did not give the number of respondents.
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Our file on VMware
- 20 Oct
Broadcom agreed a 10-year VMware deal with NTT DOCOMO. It disclosed no price.
- 9 Oct
IBM sold the contracts of hundreds of VMware customers. It did not answer questions.
- 8 Oct
Broadcom raised VMware prices. Nine in ten surveyed customers said they weigh alternatives.
- 17 Sept
Broadcom raised VMware prices by 10x or more, European cloud providers say.
- 16 Sept
Broadcom fixed one critical VMware flaw seven weeks before ransomware arrived.
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