[AzN1337c0d3r]

Bought by Broadcom, now implementing classic strategy of leveraging vendor lock-in to milk customers.

[Agingcoder]

The increase is massive ( I’ve heard x5 over existing contracts in some places )

[maartenh]

Ah, 5x? At $WORK, the low code tool vendor that is used to build the monolith (and that of our sister company) is bought by a private equity firm. Our sister company will face a 7x increase. Another fun thing is that the license is based on a percentage of licensing cost to their customers.

Their game is clearly to squeeze very hard for a few years, and then deprecate the product. I can't imagine that there are companies that are fine with such price hikes.

[garganzol]

Not only that, add dip downs in quality. For instance, VMware was famous for stuter-less graphics, now it's a 15 FPS show.

Milking customers is already a thin ice but in combination with declining quality it's a death sentence.

[amelius]

Fork?

[dijit]

Are you under the impression that VMware is free open source software?