The Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has won a legal victory in the latest pushback against Broadcom’s controversial VMware licensing changes.
The move appears to have followed threats of such audits in cease-and-desist letters sent to organisations whose VMware support contracts had expired.
That’s the defence of Broadcom’s EMEA CTO, who has said that those who get more out of VMware Cloud Foundation also recognise the added value.
The survey of 1800 IT leaders revealed 93% of firms deliberately balance a mix of private and public options as part of a shift in cloud thinking.
The two tech giants have different ideas over where the case should be heard – with Siemens wanting it in Germany; and VMware trying to keep it in the US.
Significant changes to Java and VMware licensing have made running on-prem virtualised Java-based systems much more expensive – but what can be done?
The ‘Registered’ tier is being scrapped, but Europe remain unaffected – with Broadcom saying that there are “no program changes to announce in Europe”.
With many negative reactions to Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner have advised IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors.
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