VMWare: Difference between revisions
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In 2024, Broadcom removed the ability to extend support for perpetual licensing, and required that customers switch to subscription licensing. The product you bought can no longer be updated, to receive updates you must throw away your perpetual licensing and buy new subscription licenses. AT&T claimed an annual cost increase of 1050%.<ref>https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/att_broadcom_filings_update/</ref> | |||
==Incidents== | ==Incidents== | ||