Theme 1 – Broadcom/VMware pricing & licensing criticism
“Just insane what MBAs are willing to do to a product to squeeze short term profits.” – tstrimple
Theme 2 – Open‑source alternatives (Proxmox, KVM, Hyper‑V) are viable
“Most companies using VMWare could have been using Proxmox all along without any of the licensing and fee nightmares.” – uriahlight
Theme 3 – Enterprise‑scale factors: support, risk mitigation, and vendor reliance
“The bigger you are, the less you need the convenience of outsourcing, not more.” – Brian_K_White
(counter‑point) “Quite often the bigger you are the more the higher ups want risk to be mitigated…” – throw0101a