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Tesco UK supermarket chain removes 40,000 servers from VMware infrastructure — mass exodus continues due to Broadcom's aggressive subscription model

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Ever since buying out VMware in 2023, Broadcom has raised prices for existing customers. Although the play did result in massively increased revenue for VMware, it also triggered a slow but steady exodus away from the platform, as enterprises everywhere balk at the price tags and/or sue Broadcom.

UK supermarket chain Tesco is the latest entity to up and replace VMWare across its fleet of 40,000 servers, a move it expects to complete in 2027, Ars Technica reports.

This marks the largest publicly known migration off the platform in recent years, and arrives against the backdrop of the $134-million (£100m) lawsuit that Tesco filed last year against Broadcom. In the filing, Tesco claims that Broadcom committed a breach of contract by not honoring the perpetual licenses it bought in 2021, and that Broadcom's actions are at odds with multiple competition laws.…

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