CISPE press release claims Broadcom has excluded the vast majority of European CSPs from offering VMware services under any terms; removed end customers’ Bring Your Own License (‘BYOL’) rights, restricting them to Broadcom’s own choice of a few hand-picked partners to host their workloads; imposed relentless unilateral contractual changes and cost increases that are driving European CSPs out of the market. They note SAP has embarked on increasingly worrying practices as well.

Kingfisher Group CTO Chris Blatchford: "We're not anti-big vendors — especially of ERP systems — but we do need to see the value."

(From The Register) A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade