What happened to Broadcom and AT&T Broadcom and AT&T seem to be resolving their licensing issues out of court, the latest court filing indicates. We had suspected this was likely to happen, but now it appears to be happening. This development makes sense – neither party would like to hash this out in public. Broadcom […]
Broadcom’s aggressive VMware license changes have given us an interesting new episode. It seems their attempts to extort AT&T have landed them in court. On August 29th, 2024, AT&T filed a court motion to, essentially, prevent Broadcom from terminating VMware support while challenging Broadcom’s “king’s ransom” to renew its VMware licenses and keep the lights
I always advise my clients to pay close attention to the state of affairs at their technology vendors. For example, if a company gets acquired by a private equity firm, that should be red flag (Quest is an important case in point). In fact, one of my clients had a special bucket for vendors that
Methodically counting Oracle licenses across different environments and infrastructure types is a critical pre-requisite to effective Oracle license management. I figured it would be helpful to gather the most important concepts in this quick reference. We will be limiting coverage here to “Processor” licenses, as discussions around NUPs, Application Users, and other current and legacy
The topic of VMware cloud solutions comes up often in my work for two main reasons: Cloud vendor comparisons around features and pricing. This includes minimum/maximum configuration specs, corresponding pricing, and cost-per-resource, and an illustrative high-level comparison across the major VMware cloud solutions. This will be covered in my article below. Oracle license & compliance
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