It's embarrassing how poorly Broadcom have rushed into throwing the baby out with the bathwater for no reason. They could have taken a slower approach instead of doing everything as soon as the deal officially closed...<p>I hope they lose as much business as possible over this, everyone should be looking into alternatives because they're such a shitshow.
No great surprise there.<p>Orders/renewals for Symantec products were effectively impossible for about 18 months following their Broadcom experience.<p>IIRC, in the end they just gave everyone a 1-year subscription extension.<p>Edit: Ooops - that gets a mention at the bottom of the linked article...
Thanks, Broadcom. You've taken the one little bit of my job left I enjoyed and turned it into something I never want to touch again even in my personal life.
What an absolute shitshow. These are customers who have paid major $$$ for something they now can't redeem.<p>The sad thing is... this is nothing compared to what they've done to their cloud providers (formerly known as VCPP partners)... All resellers and cloud partners got a letter in december ending the program, with the 'good news' that some of them would be invited back somewhere early in 2024. The rest will have to turn off their workloads by end of March.<p>So these 4500+ cloud providers now (including the likes of OVH, Rackspace, IBM, ...) are now in limbo. Some will know next week or early feb if they can still legally host their customer's workloads. Else they will have 6 weeks (!) to migrate away to one of the partners that made the cut. Ignoring that many of these cloud partners have multi-year contracts with their end customers (which include banks, hospitals, public sector, ... especially the niche kind of environments that often have boutique requirements that make them unsuitable for an easy public cloud migration) they can now no longer fulfill.<p>Oh, and the license aggregator partners that used to run the admin side of this business and help those partners? They're being reduced to 10 worldwide too, and they're <i>also</i> in the dark.<p>At least their SaaS partners have a clear message: that business is dead. ("sunset")