Tesco wants to move its stores off VMware, a job ad shows. It is suing VMware to keep support for its licences.
Tesco advertised for a head of software engineering to lead its stores' move from VMware to Proxmox, free open-source software for running virtual servers, The Stack reported on 26 October.
The Register first spotted the ad, which closes on 31 October.
The hire will be measured partly on a "safe and predictable migration from VMware to Proxmox" and "reduced legacy dependencies."
Tesco is suing VMware, owned by Broadcom, over licences it bought outright. It says VMware must keep supporting and upgrading them, and that it turned down at least four Broadcom offers.
One Broadcom offer covered VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 plus mainframe software and support, at $23.5 million for one year. Tesco says that was "around 175%" more than it believes it should pay for VMware. The report carries no response from Broadcom.
Our reading: the job ad is a plan, not a finished move. The retailer is in court over the software its stores run on, and is hiring the person who would replace it.
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- 2Ask which price protections are written into the contract and which rest on a sales conversation.
- 3Ask what a price rise on that line would do to the run budget, and who would notice it first.
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