Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.
Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!
To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.
Nobody was going to bother changing if they had been left alone. There would be a gradual shift to cloud native on new applications, but you underestimate the amount of time a company will stick with ancient technologies on a line of business app that works. Shit, Cobol programmers are still in demand.
Except companies are already jumping ship to other solutions. One very large company is moving thousands of VMs to an implementation of KVM, virtually eliminating the insane VM licensing.
Broadcom has all but admitted their own solution is inferior, by converting their workstation virtualization to KVM!
To Broadcom’s credit, the writing was on the wall that versions of KVM would be eating their market over the next 10 years (for example, Proxmox), so they’re getting all they can now before their corner on the market weakens.
Nobody was going to bother changing if they had been left alone. There would be a gradual shift to cloud native on new applications, but you underestimate the amount of time a company will stick with ancient technologies on a line of business app that works. Shit, Cobol programmers are still in demand.