Ask HN: How were you impacted by the Broadcom acquisiton of VMware?
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I would be concerned if the next version of VMWare Workstation was subscription-only. I think VMWare has some nicer tools around snapshots and networking, but if they want to move to a rent model I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat.
"I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat."
Trouble is that VirtualBox could easily go the same way. As VMware has shifted model it's now easy for VirtualBox to follow suit as there's no competing alternative or equivalent.
And Oracle has form in this regard, look at the way it dumped OpenOffice after it decided it couldn't monetarize it.
Trouble is that VirtualBox could easily go the same way. As VMware has shifted model it's now easy for VirtualBox to follow suit as there's no competing alternative or equivalent.
And Oracle has form in this regard, look at the way it dumped OpenOffice after it decided it couldn't monetarize it.
Don't forget that KVM and QEMU are great alternatives to Virtualbox depending on ones needs (OS host, kernel vs user mode, hw acceleration).
Virtualbox is FOSS as long as you don’t install the extension pack, so worst-case scenario it gets forked.
I am mildly concerned about the future of the Spring Framework.
Yes, +1. This is a much smaller business than VMWare of course, but the PE fund that is Broadcom seems very likely to follow the revenue-optimizing playbook that many other open source custodians have followed, moving to "open core" like licensing with fee-only add-ons and more remunerative subscription support options. Is the footprint large enough for someone like AWS to justify running a Corretto-like fork and packaging of Spring? Does not seem so to me.
I (shamefully) re-registered for VMUG just to get another year before I have to move my lab stuff off of their stack.
I really wish Proxmox was as fully baked as ESXi is, at least from an automated deployment perspective. I have a stupid goal to fully black-start my network from as few scripts/files as possible, and a migration to Proxmox is making that mildly more annoying.
I really wish Proxmox was as fully baked as ESXi is, at least from an automated deployment perspective. I have a stupid goal to fully black-start my network from as few scripts/files as possible, and a migration to Proxmox is making that mildly more annoying.
After VMWare pushing us down their SaaS option they are shutting it down.
They say we can continue to use our SaaS instances until the licences expire but we're running out of available licences and can't buy more which means we have to spin up on-prem instances.
They say we can continue to use our SaaS instances until the licences expire but we're running out of available licences and can't buy more which means we have to spin up on-prem instances.
I’m worried that the open source Bitnami projects, consisting of high quality software container recipes and kubernetes helm charts, will stop or turn bad.
Only a 30-day registration-free (it doesn't say "trial") version of VMWare Workstation Pro 16 but you would probably need to fork over your credit card afterward.
In short, Broadcom hamfisted the VMWare way into only a full-commercial product ... as originally planned.