Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware has led to major licensing changes, replacing perpetual licenses with subscriptions, consolidating products into costly bundles, and introducing per-core ...

The European cloud service providers’ association also warned all is not well in its drive to get Microsoft to level the software licensing playing field. The European Cloud Competition Observatory ...

If you’ve been running VMware for the better part of a decade, you probably didn’t expect to be rethinking that choice any time soon. Broadcom completed its $69 billion VMware acquisition Opens a new ...

Google Cloud late last week released a VMware “reminder” tied to Broadcom’s impending license portability changes that are set to impact the use of VMware’s Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform running in ...

Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware Inc. is proceeding almost exactly as we expected when the deal was announced in May 2022. Much of the media and competitor narrative is focused on the increased ...

VMware customers face steep price hikes and late fees post-Broadcom acquisition. Under Broadcom, VMware now focuses on strategic clients and subscription models. Competitors see an opportunity as ...