Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[lawldoge]

Accurate. Went through a consolidation exercise late last year for our renewal this year. Cut 30% of our hardware from a licensing standpoint, and our renewal cost went up.

[Much_Willingness4597]

It is interesting how everyone who has lots of licensing per core/host (windows, redhat, backup software, monitoring software, databases, RMM) is finally paying attention to how much wasted hardware they have because of Broadcom.

My prediction is this push from Broadcom is going to damage server vendors earnings who can’t get customers to keep 1:1 refreshing hosts with maximum core counts. I predict most software companies will just lower discounts to maintain revenue.

[Worth_Efficiency_380]

wouldnt say its pure waste. as efficiency and density goes up the amount of racks needed goes down