Plain Virtualization

The Truth Yes, the news of VMware acquired by Broadcom has come to a realization. We cannot denied the truth since 22nd Nov 2023. Prior the acquisition, if you have made a multi-year purchase before that, you will have whatever you can consume after the acquisition. VMware after the acquisition has release new bundle of all their offerings and end the perpetual licensing offer to the market. The individual products are not make available and cannot be purchase as a standalone. But are offered via two bundle namely; VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Both of which are all subscription licenses. It also ends all sales and renewal of any perpetual licenses. Honestly, VMware has been trying to end its perpetual license and into subscription for the longest time. With the Broadcom acquisition, VMware has been one of the last major player that has moved to subscription license. Customer who are on VMware, has been enjoying the great pricing with no limit of cores...

The term "lock in" has been there for many reasons. Recently was in a discussion with some customers and this term came about again. Let's first define "lock in". In the context of IT, "lock in" prevent customers from moving away from an adopted technology, or you call in trapped. Using example of mainframe. Once an application runs mainframe, there is no alternative replacement. The only way to move out is to look for a replacement doing a complete refactor and hoping that data can still be utilised. That also explains, in the early days when mainframe was introduced till date, most are still on it. Also of course not mentioning the reliability and downtime that mainframe provide. At that point in time, there were only less than a handful of mainframe system e.g. IBM, Compaq Tandem, etc. and the technology offered were far beyond any others. At today's context, technology choices of a similar domain are massive. Even though mainframe might be an l...