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Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Since Broadcom's $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes to the company's personnel and products. In December, Broadcom began laying off thousands of employees and stopped selling perpetually licensed versions of VMware products, pushing its customers toward more stable and lucrative software subscriptions instead. In January, it ended its partner programs, potentially disrupting sales and service for many users of its products.

This week, Broadcom is making a change that is smaller in scale but possibly more relevant for home users of its products: The free version of VMware's vSphere Hypervisor, also known as ESXi, is being discontinued.

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

VMs have many applications outside the cloud

[–] lud@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

One of those is running the cloud or being the cloud

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but most of that runs on Hyper-V, KVM or Xen/XCP.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

True, but it was more of a reply to this.

RIP VMware.

VMs in general

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

One of the applications outside the cloud is running the cloud?