VMware Price Hikes? Between 800 and 1,500% Since Acquisition By Broadcom, Claim Euro Customers (theregister.com)
- Reference: 0177693489
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/1818256/vmware-price-hikes-between-800-and-1500-since-acquisition-by-broadcom-claim-euro-customers
- Source link: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_says_broadcom_licensing_unfair/
> This is the according to the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), an independent body formed by customer organizations, and CISPE -- a trade association of 37 cloud providers in the region -- to monitor the behavior of software vendors accused of abusing their monopoly position.
The report also calls for regulatory intervention. The current subscription model "creates a material risk for the company and their shareholders should Regulators investigate and challenge the legality of such model," the report adds.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/euro_cloud_body_ecco_says_broadcom_licensing_unfair/
I'm just glad we stopped in forcing antitrust law (Score:1)
Take that bureaucrats! And that Washington fat cats!
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They don't have a monopoly though.
Also this article suggests there are no alternatives, but we fired them just fine.
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> They don't have a monopoly though. Also this article suggests there are no alternatives
> and a lack of alternatives in the tech industry means trade and end customers have no choice but to play ball.
> monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
LoL. What do they have?
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VirtualBox
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> What do they have?
A pointy-clicky frontend on 50+ year old technology. It's value is enabling low cost IT muppets to manage resources. Without that you have to employ people that understand things and solve problems without filing support requests.
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I was also wondering how they claimed it was a monopoly. I guess they justify that stance from the difficulty of changing to another solution. With this levels of price hike I assume that any time and money spent migrating to a different solution would be both an unplanned expense and a good investment.
Say it 1500% fast! (Score:2)
Nine-times price rise? That's fun to say! But it's not a real thing. At least, I can't see how it could be.
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> I can't see how it could be.
Here's how: "Prices have often increased tenfold."
Easily possible: big pharma (Score:2)
> Nine-times price rise?
If the price hike is 1,500% then the new price is sixteen times the original price, not nine times. If you don't believe prices can increase that much then you have not been following what some US pharmaceutical companies have been doing to the prices of medications that some people need to survive. The difference here is that it is only companies whose lives are dependent on VMware and even then it is possible to pay the development cost to switch to an alternative so at least nobody should die this time a
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I don't short Broadcom, bc short sales are a short-term play. They have to lose market value, and lose market value quickly for the short term play to work.
Broadcom are incredibly successful in the short term at making enough quick billions to keep their investors happy the whole time they're destroying trillions of dollars worth in value. Problem is the trillions of value they destroyed will not suppress their stock price - at least not in the short term. They'll be moving on to a new target nex
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> :middle finger:
I came up with this one years ago: ..|..
This is unheard of (Score:2)
A company acquiring assets so they can make money off them by jacking up the prices... Oh wait this happens daily!! There is nothing new or news worthy here.
Time limited headache (Score:3)
When the license expires then your servers will become problematic to access.
And what happens if Broadcom no longer want to extend your license?