After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to ...

Court says State arm cannot be left without maintenance, patches and upgrades because of Broadcom's new licensing model ...

Those who get more out of VMware Cloud Foundation also recognize the added value. Broadcom customers frustrated by the shift ...

The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has won a legal victory in the latest pushback against Broadcom’s ...

VMware users continue to be unhappy with licensing changes since the virtualization giant was acquired by Broadcom, and are ...

VMware offered a free version of ESXi for years, and it was beloved by home lab operators and vAdmins who needed something to tinker with. But in February 2024, VMware discontinued it on grounds ...

In the wake of widespread customer confusion over a series of license changes announced in December, Broadcom Inc.’s VMware subsidiary is positioning the moves as simplifying its product portfolio a ...

We first need to discuss the licensing for ESXi on ARM. As it is not a production product, it is offered with a 180-day license for evaluation purposes, a considerable upgrade from the usual 60-day ...

Broadcom Inc. is accelerating a plan to strong-arm VMware customers into signing up for subscriptions by killing off older, on-premises perpetual licenses to use the popular virtualization software.

In the latest development following Broadcom’s November 2023 acquisition of VMware, the company has decided to kill off the free version of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor. A knowledge base article ...

Given the prevalence of Java hosted on VMware vSphere, licensing used to be priced based on the number of physical cores of the server hardware. Oracle now sells the Java SE Universal Subscription ...