I had shared a post about VMWare Workstation Pro is now free. The paid
alternative to VirtualBox.

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2024, 16:27 greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> didn't VMWare have a free version recently?
> I never investigated one the recent posts sent out too much.
> I didn't know the costs doubled.  Wow!
> Yes I have heard talk of Kubernetes and the like around.
> I took a course through the Maricopa school district last year but haven't
> used it professionally yet.
>
> so much change to keep up with...
>
> On Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 04:13:28 PM MST, Adam Mercer via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 2:47 PM greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > speaking of VMs I see they are migrating from VMWare to OpenShift from
> Red Hat at work.
> > Anyone know more about this? Is it cost based?
>
> More than likely due to the increased costs in VMWare since the
> Broadcom acquisition. At work our VMWare licensing costs doubled and
> that was with going down a license level and losing a few features. I
> think it was a seven fold increase to stay with the same license. Some
> other groups at work saw their costs increase by a factor of twelve. I
> know there are discussions about moving away from VMWare to something
> else, but that's occurring above my paygrade.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
>
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