Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the vendor had converted more than 87 percent of VMware’s 10,000 largest customers to the new subscription pricing model by the end of its fiscal second quarter of 2025.

Broadcom has cut the lowest tier in its VMware partner program. The move allows the enterprise technology firm to continue its focus on customers with larger VMware deployments, but it also risks ...

Broadcom is ditching its lowest tier VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) reseller partners and program tier in the latest move by the vendor in revamping its VMware sales channels around what it terms ...

Broadcom has allegedly increased VMware licensing costs by eight to 15 times for many customers after eliminating perpetual and pay-as-you-go licenses, replacing them with bundled subscriptions ...

Therefore, Broadcom "demands" that such customers stop installing new updates to VMware products, including maintenance releases, minor releases, patches, or security fixes.

VMware’s new owner is pushing legacy license-holders to buy costly software support subscriptions. Broadcom says it may audit VMware users to make sure they’re not skirting the rules.

Broadcom is addressing VMware perpetual licenses, again Users can continue using existing software under their perpetual licenses, however they cannot access updates or support unless they had a ...

Broadcom has also massively increased the profitability of VMware. In Aug. 2023, just before the acquisition, VMware had an adjusted operating margin of just under 29%.

Broadcom has not yet issued a public statement or workaround for the issue, and BleepingComputer has confirmed it is still broken in VMware Workstation 17.6.3, the latest software version.

Broadcom released security updates today to fix a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows. VMware Tools is a suite of drivers and utilities designed to ...

Broadcom has cut VMware's workforce by roughly half since acquiring the company in 2023. VMware had more than 38,000 employees in early 2023. That's down to about 16,000, two sources said.

To better understand the impact of VMware, it helps to examine Broadcom's software revenue before the acquisition. In Q4 2023, Broadcom recorded $1.97 billion in software revenue, bringing its ...