They have more bargaining power now. Lots of people are scrambling to get off vmware after they raised their prices astronomically for seemingly no reason (other than they could, and a lot of groups are leaving VMs for containers). Openshift Virtualization is there with open arms to take those who haven't or won't migrate off of VMs.
Redhat can now charge a lot more and have worse service because some of their main competition now enables it. Whatever replaces kubernetes is slowly being formed and decided on, but there's easy pickings for custom solutions and consultants for now.
Oh Broadcom has very solid reasons for what they are doing to vmware customers - in many cases they have total vendor lock in & can milk those customers dry for years before they can finally flee.
Sure, by that point vmware would be dead but Broadcom would also be latched into another victim (that it bough for a part of the bloody money) & milking their vendor locked customers.
Rinse and repeat. Or use oil, fire and steel - like you would use on a tick.
scottyah · · focus · HN ↗
Redhat can now charge a lot more and have worse service because some of their main competition now enables it. Whatever replaces kubernetes is slowly being formed and decided on, but there's easy pickings for custom solutions and consultants for now.
m4rtink · · focus · HN ↗
Sure, by that point vmware would be dead but Broadcom would also be latched into another victim (that it bough for a part of the bloody money) & milking their vendor locked customers.
Rinse and repeat. Or use oil, fire and steel - like you would use on a tick.