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| Industry =Virtualization Software

| Official Website =www.vmware.com

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}}VMWare is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. ~~Since Novermber 2023, it is~~ a subsidiary of Broadcom.

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'''[[wikipedia:VMWare|VMware]]''' is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. The brand has been a subsidiary of Broadcom since November 2023.

Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against ~~corprorate~~ users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for perpetual ~~licens~~ products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.~~{{Placeholder box|An introductory paragraph starting with "'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a ...<ref name":0">ref goes here</ref>"}}~~

Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against corporate users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/ perpetual license] products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.

==Consumer-impact summary==

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==Incidents==

{{Placeholder box|If the company page is short enough and/or the incident is not deserving of its own page, add incidents below in sub-sections (including the points outlined in [[Consumer_Action_Taskforce:Sample/Incident/Help|the incident help page]]) without linking/creating an incident page.

If the company has various incidents listed and/or this page is getting too long, create subsections linking to each incident while linking to the main article and including a short summary. To link to the page use the "Hatnote" or "Main" templates.

~~If the company has numerous incidents then format them in a table (see [[Amazon]] for an example). }}~~

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===~~Example incident one (''date'')~~===

===Cease and Desist Letters/Notifications===

~~{{Main|link to the main article}}~~

An incident of a customer receiving a cease and desist letter from Broadcom, regarding perpetual licensing and other services offered.

~~Short summary~~ of ~~the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article)~~.

[[File:Undefined - Imgur.png|thumb]]

~~===Example incident two (''date'')===~~

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==Products==

{{Placeholder box|This is a list of the company's product lines '''with articles on this wiki'''.

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{{Placeholder box|Link to relevant theme articles or companies with similar incidents.}}

== Alternatives ==

==Alternatives==

Alternatives include the popular free and open source project [https://www.proxmox.com~~/de~~/ Proxmox], which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.

Alternatives include the popular free and open source project [https://www.proxmox.com/ Proxmox], which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.

==References==

{{reflist}}https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jzqbte/vmware_threatening_perpetual_license_holders_than/

https://imgur.com/FbrdQya

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 | Founded =1998
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+| Official Website =https://www.vmware.com
-| Logo =QuestionMark.svg
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-}}VMWare is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. Since Novermber 2023, it is a subsidiary of Broadcom.
+}}
+'''[[wikipedia:VMWare|VMware]]''' is a major player in the enterprise virtualization software market. The brand has been a subsidiary of Broadcom since November 2023.
-Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against corprorate users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for perpetual licens products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.{{Placeholder box|An introductory paragraph starting with "'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a ...<ref name":0">ref goes here</ref>"}}
+Since the Broadcom takeover, licensing and business model changes bordering on extortion, price increases, litigations against corporate users such as Siemens, deliberately ending support for [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/ perpetual license] products, have left many customers facing skyrocketing virtualization costs.
 ==Consumer-impact summary==
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 ==Incidents==
-{{Placeholder box|If the company page is short enough and/or the incident is not deserving of its own page, add incidents below in sub-sections (including the points outlined in [[Consumer_Action_Taskforce:Sample/Incident/Help|the incident help page]]) without linking/creating an incident page.
-If the company has various incidents listed and/or this page is getting too long, create subsections linking to each incident while linking to the main article and including a short summary. To link to the page use the "Hatnote" or "Main" templates.
-If the company has numerous incidents then format them in a table (see [[Amazon]] for an example). }}
 This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
+===Cease and Desist Letters/Notifications===
-{{Main|link to the main article}}
+An incident of a customer receiving a cease and desist letter from Broadcom, regarding perpetual licensing and other services offered.
-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
+[[File:Undefined - Imgur.png|thumb]]
-===Example incident two (''date'')===
-...
 ==Products==
 {{Placeholder box|This is a list of the company's product lines '''with articles on this wiki'''.
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 {{Placeholder box|Link to relevant theme articles or companies with similar incidents.}}
-== Alternatives ==
+==Alternatives==
-Alternatives include the popular free and open source project [https://www.proxmox.com/de/ Proxmox], which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.
+Alternatives include the popular free and open source project [https://www.proxmox.com/ Proxmox], which has a less polished user interface but is otherwise functionally very close.
 ==References==
-{{reflist}}
+{{reflist}}https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/
+https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1jzqbte/vmware_threatening_perpetual_license_holders_than/
+https://imgur.com/FbrdQya
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