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Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software (arstechnica.com)

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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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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 14 points 9 months ago

Why can't we have nice things

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

We do, we have Proxmox.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And LXD/Incus...

Why use Proxmox when half of it's technology (the container part) was made by the same people who made LXD/Incus? I mean Incus is free, well funded and can be installed on a clean Debian system with way less overhead and also delivers both containers and VMs.

[-] beerclue@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

To be honest, I've never heard of Incus before... it does look interesting though. Terraform provider too? I will check it out!

[-] Alto@kbin.social 20 points 9 months ago

In a word? Capitalism

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

You can have nice things... for money!

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yes.. for price set by the greed of companies

[-] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Or for effort...

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