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Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure, blames 'abusive conduct' from Broadcom (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I understand the need for SLAs but I'm always annoyed to see businesses never consider just using that vendor money to pay for a quality IT team and using something open source like Proxmox or Apache Cloud.

Especially when its something really basic like VMs and not actual cloud infrastructure.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nobody wants responsibility. If you go with a vendor it's their fault when they fuck up. If it's internal, someone in the company has to take the blame.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    No one is ever fired for buying IBM or Microsoft.

    You get fired by saving the company million s with open source alternatives until the day there's an issue and they can't blame IBM or Microsoft.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    It reminds me of this story of a company that paid for WinRAR as opposed to using peazip which is FOSS... Their opinion is that paid software is better and more secure...

    I can see that argument for UX/UI since paid software is often a fancy front end on FOSS but it still pisses me off. So much for capitalism being efficient lol...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    In this case, that are pissed because they already spent the money. Further I'm sure they started the VMware path likely over 15 years ago, and frankly the alternatives weren't great back then and VMware wasn't as crazy unreasonable.

    One could think it's not great that they are going Microsoft for virtualization after being bitten, but I'm positive their infrastructure is Windows based and so for them, it makes sense. I can't imagine that being the desired choice personally, but here we are.

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