First Broadcom announced that VMware customers would have to licence at least 72 cores instead of 16. Now the company has cancelled the decision.
Following extensive criticism, there have been further changes to the VMware licence model: Contrary to Broadcom’s initial announcement, companies can now still purchase VMware licences from 16 cores, as a distributor confirmed to iX. The software company had originally planned to increase the minimum number of cores ordered from 16 to 72 from 10 April 2025 – a decision that would have hit small and medium-sized companies particularly hard. Broadcom has already published a revised reseller price list, which is available to iX.
SMEs would have have had to pay for unused cores
No official reason for the decision is currently known. When asked by the iX editorial team, a spokesperson merely explained that Broadcom had never announced a price change. The minimum number of 16 cores set in December 2023 has not changed.
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