Broadcom’s recent decision to discontinue the sale of VMware’s perpetual license — once an extremely popular product in the virtualization market — is still reverberating throughout the industry. The wholesale push to a subscription model affects a large number of companies globally, with VMware leading the top virtualization technologies market in terms of number of customers as of December 2023.
The shift follows Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November and has left many…