logo
welcome
Ars Technica

Ars Technica

Broadcom responds to AT&T’s VMware support lawsuit: AT&T has “other options”

Ars Technica
Summary
Nutrition label

76% Informative

AT&T says Broadcom is breaking a contract by refusing to renew support for perpetual license support for its software.

Broadcom famously ended perpetual VMware license sales shortly after closing its acquisition in favor of a subscription model.

The transition from perpetual licenses to subscriptions was years in the making and, thus, should have been prepared, Broadcom says.

ATandT uses VMware products to run 75,000 virtual machines across about 8,600 servers.

As this lawsuit demonstrates, Broadcom 's VMware has brought serious customer concerns around ongoing support.

Companies like Spinnaker Support are trying to capitalize by offering third -party support services.

The challenge many have is that not paying fees means not getting support or security on their existing investment.

VR Score

70

Informative language

64

Neutral language

54

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

62

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Affiliate links

no affiliate links