CIO who dropped VMware 18 months ago now feeling thoroughly chuffed Gregg Lowe is feeling thoroughly chuffed about his technology buying decisions. A couple of years back, the CIO of Boyd Gaming, operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US states, was hip-deep in negotiations for a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition by Broadcom. Nutanix, which offers …
I think the thousands of people caught up in the DWP systemic IT failure led overpayment and malicious clawback of Attendance Allowance aren’t chuffed. Esp. As the promised to fix if over 5 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/ministers-clawing-back-251m-carers-dwp-allowance-failures?utm_term=664843e56a8bddb57c1642fcd6f56dab&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
...some he deals with behave like used-car salesmen with their eagerness to secure any sort of sale.
He wouldn't be talking about Oracle by any chance, would he?
It's nice to see that giants like Wells Fargo are agile and dedicated enough to get out from under when their current supplier starts treating them as a cash-cow.
Hmm so that would suggest you are neither chuffed nor dischuffed but sort of in the middle.
P.S. dischuffed is an ancient term, first heard by me at school in the 1960s and uttered by the history of architecture teacher describing the feelings of the monks when kicked out of their monasteries.
(phew!)
P.P.S I have no idea what relevance any of this has to the original topic
if "Broadcom’s revised licensing strategy will please investors but not customers", then Broadcom's investors are stupid.
No company's long-term outlook is improved by pissing off its customers. Growth by acquisition is far too often financial engineering for a company's BoD to hide its underlying poor performance from its Investors.
Broadcom don't care about the long term. They have bought VMware for the short term gain, 5 years, maybe 10 at most. If it took a 27 site casino business 18 months to migrate from VMware and it's still not finished, then imagine how long it will take larger businesses like banks, insurance companies, shipping businesses, government institutions all over the world - years ! Broadcom have probably tripled their profit from VMware over night by increased revenue and reduced costs (who said support team ?) and they will rape the living poo out of VMware customers until they see profits declining and offer it for sale to another venture capital business which has a different vision and thinks it can rebuild it and create profit with a sale in 3 or 4 years.
Broadcom don't care about customers, they care about profit and giving it to shareholders whilst trimming a little of it for themselves.
The larger the company, the more self-destructive its behaviour.
This seems to be because the incentives become shorter term. Managers, salescritters and often others get paid based on monthly targets, and after a while everyone spends more of their time justifying their position than actually doing their jobs. Many don't expect or even intend to be in the same post a year later.
Eventually the whole room comes down of course, but most of the people involved in cutting down the supporting columns have left with their bags of gold before then.
Yes, it really is.
Their calculation is that they will be able to rinse the existing customers of VMware for more than the acquisition cost before they burn it to the ground. If they can sell the ashes for anything at the end of the process it's just a bonus. They're doing the same at Symantec, just a few years further along.
Sound like a sizeable part of the industry to me.
Unlike many other industries IT has a infantile management afflicted with insane amounts of unfounded optimism with a ready access to ludicrous quantities of cash.
Visually its analogous to watching someone trying to put out a lithium battery fire with a petrol pump.
"infantile management afflicted with insane amounts of unfounded optimism"
Made worse by their goldfish grade memory causing them to forget the reason the last supplier was a disaster is that they simply took everything the salesmen said as TRUTH since they were trying to urgently replace a system which the salemen had assured them would...etc etc etc
Actually, some folks here were able to find the free personal download; I saw links posted in an earlier article. Or maybe that was a discussion elsewhere. I did definitely read posts from people saying they'd found it, with links.
I didn't bother saving them because I have no reason to ever use VMware again on a personal machine.
Yes - a couple of days back. When the announcement went out it wasn't possible as Broadcom hadn't actually set up the site to do it. You do have to register, but no payment involved as long as you select the personal use option. The links here now work https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2024/05/vmware-workstation-pro-now-available-free-for-personal-use.html
I decided that I was going to get the 'free' download. So I clicked on the indicated button... and was sent to a page to 'register'. Hmm. I step out, go to [name redacted] and generate a throw-away account. Test that it works. Put that in as the 'registered account'. Generate a stupid password which meets the minimum. .So where's the download? Hmm. Where _is_ the download? Can't find it. Can find a 800 number to Customer Support. Call Customer Support. Customer Support walks me through finding the download button. Hmm. Before downloading, I must provide an address. I give them the address for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. (note that my throwaway was in the name of bradrick99@[redacted]; the Sheriff is Ric (no k) Bradshaw.) The download is currently proceeding.
I may/may not bother to actually install it.
I've been installing vmware for about 10 years and picking up Nutanix was like trying to pick up a tin of paint but without the handle, or the tin.
I'm still struggling to get their Move (migration tool) appliance to download from the portal. Freeloaders like us are apparently licenced for it but Nutanix staff (in the Discord) are directing me to third-party websites that show me how to work around a bug in their portal.
At least with vmware they called things by unique names (vmotion, esxi, vsan) so you could Google things. Who calls a tool "Nutanix Move" when everyone's already talking about "how to move to Nutanix"? How am I supposed to get support for that?
Nutanix was a real shady outfit when we looked at them 8 years ago. They were somewhat new and making insane promises that we knew could never be kept. We made the right choice with VMware then and we just renewed our ELA last year before the merger. However, management is believing all the Cloud hype and we will be be reducing our on-premise footprint down to almost nothing in the next few years. Our cloud costs are skyrocketing but that doesn't seem to matter because CIOs don't want to be in the business of managing data centers anymore. I need to post this anonymously for job security.
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