In a recent shift, Broadcom has halted support contracts for customers using perpetual licenses for VMware products, compelling moves to subscription-based licensing. This has sparked alarm among organizations reliant on VMware for virtualization, especially following the release of critical security advisories for its products. With increased product bundling under VMware Cloud Foundation, costs soar while available patches remain limited for perpetual license holders. Critics note this strategy may pressure users to conform to subscription licensing, contrary to earlier assurances made by Broadcom.
According to some industry experts, the lack of a workaround and access to patches for customers running perpetual VMware licences not only causes a rift between Broadcom and VMware customers, but can also be interpreted as indirect pressure from the owner of VMware to move customers onto subscription-based licensing.
In an open letter, VMware rival Platform9 pointed out that when Broadcom switched from perpetual licensing of VMware to subscription-based pricing, it assured customers that the transition would not affect customers' ability to use their existing perpetual licences.
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