This sounds like it’s exactly what Broadcom intended. They are going to charge as much as they can and companies that depend on it will have to pay until they can move away and that may take years. Broadcom didn’t dig a hole. They triggered a trap on their customers.
I’ve spent the last 15 years working with VMware exclusively. A little nervous about all of this
I was too, but as soon as I heard about the acquisition I started diversifying my non production kit for testing. I’ve now got Proxmox installed on an HPE DL380G10 with GPU pass thru, same on an HP Z440, and XenServer 8 installed on a pair of DL380G9 with MSA2040 backing storage.
At home I’ve got both truenas scale and truenas core set up each on a z230.
No matter what happens with the IT department at my office, I’m ready to either meet the new standards here, or go find work elsewhere.
Broadcom has a history of acquiring IP and not having the first clue what to do with it.
Look at CA Tech… they had partnered with CNN to manage election data in 2016… bought by Broadcom in 2018… And now?
