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Ars TechnicaAT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support
Ars cited in lawsuit AT&T recently filed against Broadcom.
Anthropy@arstechnica someone should tell them about Proxmox and all that. Basically the same thing with less hassle and less Broadcon. Or, you know, invest in some knowledge and expertise and set up your own thing with Linux KVM at its heart, you're AT&T ffs, you used to have your own UNIX distro, surely you can do better than this?
beaumains@anthropy @arstechnica another alternative would be openstack.
No vendor dependence!
@beaumains @arstechnica yea my thoughts exactly, KVM would be the heart of that usually, openstack is neat, libvirt is very flexible and it's incredibly easy to build your own infra when you're at the level of a corp with "75,000 virtual machines (VMs) across about 8,600 servers". Perhaps they could even containerize a bunch. There's so much low hanging fruit they could be reaping and all of it starts with a move away from VMware.
@anthropy @arstechnica it is a symptom of a sickness in modern business, I think.
Companies want to do as little as possible, so they rely on other companies as much as possible.
This is ok when the market has a lot of players, and antitrust is enforced, but concentration, vendor lock in and massive switching costs means that its just bad strategy to rely so much on another company for your infra (at the very least, one that is subject to all these forces).
Delric@anthropy @arstechnica I’ve built software for ATT, they have limited in-house ability. It’s mostly outsourced
Odoben@anthropy I just looked up Proxmox pricing. Basically the same as for VMWare but followed by "per month" instead of "per year" 
Grendelz@arstechnica This is going to be interesting
Lewis Edwards@arstechnica Can they both lose?
Darryl RammCan't think of two more insufferably awful companies that it is great they spend time and money fighting with each other.
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