Broadcom is discontinuing sales of perpetual licenses for over a dozen VMware products, the company announced this week. The move comes less than a month after the completion of Broadcom's acquisition ...

Broadcom Inc. is accelerating a plan to strong-arm VMware customers into signing up for subscriptions by killing off older, on-premises perpetual licenses to use the popular virtualization software.

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In a strategic move aimed at transforming virtualisation and cloud computing firm VMware into a subscription-based business, Broadcom has officially ceased the sale of perpetual licenses for VMware ...

The days of buying software once and having a perpetual license to use it are coming to an end as businesses including Microsoft have embraced a subscription model. The US software giant will no ...

‘We are, in a sense, restructuring the contracts from perpetual to subscription. That’s why, depending on where you see it, you’ll see a slower growth at the beginning—if any—followed by a more rapid ...