The Real Reason Tesco Removed 40,000 Servers from VMware, They Are Forced into Subscription Even After Buying a Perpetual License(arstechnica.com)
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- Tesco is removing 40,000 server workloads from VMware.
- They bought perpetual licenses in 2021, but after Broadcom's acquisition, faced a 175% price hike and a demand for 23.5M dollars over 1 years, leading to a 100 million pound lawsuit.
- This exposes a pattern of forcing already paid software into subscriptions again.
- In migration businesses, it is important to catch the moment the customer decides to leave rather than the day the migration ends.
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