How were you impacted by the Broadcom acquisiton of VMware?

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egberts1 · Accepted Answer

Vmware community-version download is no longer searchable on vmware.com website.
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.

zkirill · Answer

I am mildly concerned about the future of the Spring Framework.

bradhanson · Answer

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.

InsomniacL · Answer

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.

speedgoose · Answer

I&rsquo;m worried that the open source Bitnami projects, consisting of high quality software container recipes and kubernetes helm charts, will stop or turn bad.

How were you impacted by the Broadcom acquisiton of VMware?

How were you impacted by the Broadcom acquisiton of VMware?

I am mildly concerned about the future of the Spring Framework.

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.

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.