Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware has led to major licensing changes, replacing perpetual licenses with subscriptions, consolidating products into costly bundles, and introducing per-core ...

Broadcom has been sending cease-and-desist letters to owners of VMware perpetual licenses with expired support contracts, Ars Technica has confirmed. Some customers have opted to continue using VMware ...

If you’ve been running VMware for the better part of a decade, you probably didn’t expect to be rethinking that choice any time soon. Broadcom completed its $69 billion VMware acquisition Opens a new ...

The European cloud service providers’ association also warned all is not well in its drive to get Microsoft to level the software licensing playing field. The European Cloud Competition Observatory ...

Broadcom’s unwavering ability to convert VMware’s largest legacy customers to its subscription pricing model continued unabated during its most recent fiscal quarter, which along with surging ...

Broadcom (Nasdaq:AVGO) has initiated what appears to be a systematic legal offensive against subscription-less VMware customers who hold a perpetual software license and have expired support contracts ...

A trade association that represents cloud providers in the European Union has filed suit over Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware. The group, CISPE, disclosed the move today. It submitted the ...

Editor's take: After acquiring VMware in 2023, Broadcom has wasted no time reshaping the company into a profit-focused operation, often at the expense of good customer relations. The latest move in ...

When Broadcom completed its $69 billion acquisition of VMware, the company promised predictable growth from one of the most entrenched platforms in enterprise IT. Less than two years later, the ...