Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)

slater

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576838

drchaim

Having VMware in 2026 is a sign of low tech.

parasubvert

Negotiating tactic. Never really makes it to court.

OrvalWintermute

VMware really damaged their business longterm, as anyone that can transition off, is doing so, and anyone else is planning on it.

diego_moita

They're not the only ones pissed off with VMWare [1]. What I don't understand is what prevents them to shop around for alternatives. What is VMWare's very good moat that prevents the competition from invading their castle? https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/24/half-of-vmwa...

jaskerr

Never thought I'd be able to say this, but Broadcom has out-CA'd Computer Associates. For those not familiar with CA, their model was to buy up failed enterprise software companies and milk the s@*t out of the licensing and support contracts, while spending next-to-nothing on development. Broadcom follows much the same model with steroids and protein powder. CA failed, only after years of profitable rent-seeking. The same may happen to Broadcom, but it will take years. In the meantime the companies who depend on the software they control will pay a heavy price.

vcdx69420

Making on premise hosting more costly changes the calculus making cloud migrations easier to sell to the board. Broadcom's revenue is literally a slice of hyperscaler capex and that capex is enormous. Combined AI infrastructure spending across the major players runs well past $600 billion annually. This aligns with the federal government's need to have data custody and supports whatever the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is called now. They are geniuses.

ChrisArchitect

(2025) OP. The current report and discussion this week: Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576838

Alien1Being

"In 2018, Computer Associates was acquired by Broadcom Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, for nearly $19 billion." The behaviour was acquired too ....