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Pressure, intimidation and forced audits: Broadcom calls on the perpetual VMware license holders to justify their use, trying to make companies bend under the legal threat Since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, the landscape of virtualization solutions is changing. In June 2025, a new step has just been taken: companies holding perpetual VMware licenses receive letters of audit or formal notice. A perceived practice...
After Broadcom acquired VMware, it abolished the perpetual license and switched to a subscription system, and forced companies to re-sign subscription licenses through audits.
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom - WorldNL Magazine
The letter, signed by Aiden Fitzgerald, director of global sales operations at Broadcom, claims that Broadcom will use its time “as efficiently and productively as possible to minimize disruption.” Still, the security worker that Ars spoke with is concerned about the implications of the audit and said they “expect a big financial impact” for their employer. They added: Because we are focusing on saving costs and are on a pretty tight financial b…
VMware Perpetual License Holder Receives Audit Letter From Broadcom
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After sending cease-and-desist letters to VMware users whose support contracts had expired and who subsequently declined to subscribe to one of Broadcom's VMware bundles, Broadcom has started the process of conducting audits on former VMware cus...
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