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As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware’s still making money.
The CTO's comments align with what Ars Technica has heard from customers and partners that say long quote times have hurt business and that the quality VMware support has worsened since Broadcom's takeover. But as Canalys chief analyst Alastair Edwards put it, letting 1,500 of the biggest accounts be run by channel partners helps tie professional services to VMware products, making migrations harder. Meanwhile, Forrester analysts Michele Pelino and Naveen Chhabra predict that next year, "VMware’s largest 2,000 customers will shrink their deployment size by an average of 40 percent," in favor of "public cloud, on-premises alternatives, and new architecture."
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