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Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a great point. But vsphere not being available in the free tier kind of proves my point. Why hamstring your free tier by eliminating the more useful features? I understand not giving away your product for free but there was a way to do it where you turn it into a marketing tool.

You drive people away and then you end up in a situation where "esxi free tier is pointless" and then you kill that and all your goodwill completely. I guess we'll see how it plays out.

Broadcom isn't know for being great with acquisitions. It's probably going to strip it for parts and sell it off.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

vSphere was never available in the free tier.