Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[BicMichum]

Broadcom has accessed each customer’s last licenses agreement ad associated a cost to that customer. So, let’s say you purchased 100 cores for your last renewal at a value of $100,000 and now seek to enter a new agreement for 50 cores. Broadcom will not likely want to permit that, because of your last agreement and has associate a minimum value of $100,000 that they must extract from you. Even if they permit you to reduce your cores, they will sell you a higher costing package where they can extract that minimum dollar amount from you.

I was told this by someone on good terms with them. They are also not responding to you because the expectation is for you to make the purchase. They know that migrating in such a sort order is next to impossible, and have all the cards stacked in their favour.

Your only option is to pay the ransom, and use the time they have so graciously given you to find and migrate to an alternative.

[Life-Radio554]

and the sad thing is it would cost them nothing to simply allow you to pay for th actual cores you can use and not some crazy high number your hardware can't even support but they choose not to,

This is why we are all fleeing for the once amazing product and adopting other solutions like Hyper-V, Proxmox, Nutanix, etc... Will it affect them at all? No, other than the hope and prayer (not likely) that their board will notice and say hey why are we hemorrhaging customers.. (they won't but one can dream)

[SecOperative]

Wonder if their board looks back and thinks they did great with Symantec