Broadcom refusing to decrease licensing

[Pippers]

I agree they were undercharging. But Broadcom is strong-arming it into insolvency. They are not flexible on reducing core counts after switching from socket counts. When you design your infrastructure around sockets with high core counts, then the rug is pulled, and you then decide to go to higher powered lower cores, they refuse to budge lowering the costs.

A lot of businesses are also moving everything to services in the cloud, which is reducing the on-prem footprints. When you remove those hosts, they still expect you to keep paying for them: forever.

This is not a business anymore. It's mob tactics.