lol
I want what Sylvain is smoking ...
VMware by Broadcom will deliver a significant update to its flagship Cloud Foundation bundle in the middle of this year and follow it up with a major update early in 2025. Both releases will show off Broadcom's plan to make the package easier to implement and operate, and hopefully assuage customer concerns about price rises …
Why yes, support was sold separately, for perpetual licenses. It's like these people just started working there yesterday or something.
Perpetual licenses were only sold as SnS. One could get the software upgrades for their perpetual licenses, but only if support was purchased along with it. Support was so bad for vSphere, we often told our merry-go-round of sales reps that we would gladly pay less for just the software upgrades and skip support altogether, since they often made matters worse than when we started a ticket. If they responded at all.
Was it really possible to purchase a subscription license without support? How does this guy have a job?
Every press release from Broadcom makes me feel a little bit better that we won't be a VMware customer in the long run.