If you’ve been running VMware for the better part of a decade, you probably didn’t expect to be rethinking that choice any time soon. Broadcom completed its $69 billion VMware acquisition in late 2023, and the licensing changes that followed have put a lot of IT shops in a difficult position.
As a Spiceworks community member @Quest John put it, “There is no longer any such thing as a reasonably priced support option for VMWare. Broadcom has taken over and has basically told everyone except enterprise customers that they do not want our business.”
A January 2026, CloudBolt survey found that 86% of companies are now reducing their VMware footprint, though only 4% have fully migrated. Most are somewhere in between, working through their options at a pace that fits their environment.
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