Broadcom has upped VMware licensing costs by between eight to 15 times since it took over the organization, and a lack of alternatives in the tech industry means trade and end customers have no choice but to play ball.
This is the according to the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), an independent body formed by customer organizations, and CISPE – a trade association of 37 cloud providers in the region – to monitor the behavior of software vendors accused of abusing their…
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