Those migration challenges are on top of the alleged legal intimidation and cease-and-desist letters sent earlier this year to customers with perpetual licenses who had not signed up for subscriptions.
Signaling its determination to challenge Broadcom’s regime, in July ECCO also filed an action with the General Court of the European Union challenging the European Commission (EC) decision that month to approve the VMware acquisition, subject to conditions that made no reference to complaints about its behavior. This is the other side of ECCO and CISPE’s campaign: taking issue with Broadcom and VMware while aiming shots at the EC for not doing enough about the situation.
Microsoft, SAP and Citrix
Many of the complaints were made by CISPE on behalf of its European service provider members. In 2024, CISPE set up ECCO to monitor the behavior of large software vendors in the cloud market, encouraged by concessions it negotiated with Microsoft.
Its first report dealt…
