Broadcom drops VMware perpetual licences and support | Computer Weekly
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“As part of our transition to subscription and a simplified portfolio, beginning today, we will no longer sell perpetual licences,” it said. Additionally, we are ending the sale of support and subscription renewals for perpetual offerings beginning today.” During the company’s fourth quarter earnings call earlier this month, CEO Hock Tan confirmed that Broadcom officially intends to divest itself of end-user computing, which will mean it will no longer offer virtual desktop infrastructure products such as VMware Horizon. Broadcom has cut the price of VMware Cloud Foundation, in a bid to entice customers onto an annual software subscription. It has also introduced a new VMware vSphere Foundation, which, according to Broadcom, delivers a more simplified enterprise-grade workload platform for mid-sized to smaller customers. Application Network and Security offerings are available as add-ons for VMware Cloud Foundation, and the company plans to add more services such as private AI.
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