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Broadcom responds to AT&T’s VMware support lawsuit: AT&T has “other options”
Broadcom defends against renewal, citing “End of Availability” provision.
Broadcom famously ended perpetual VMware license sales shortly after closing its acquisition in favor of a subscription model featuring about two bundles of products rather than many SKUs. The lawsuit says that 22,000 of AT&T's VMware VMs are used for support "of services to millions of police officers, firefighters, paramedics, emergency workers, and incident response team members nationwide... for use in connection with matters of public safety and/or national security." Even if AT&T thinks it deserves better pricing, it could have avoided its purported irreparable harm by entering in a subscription based deal and suing for monetary damages instead of injunctive relief.
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