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I understand the need for SLAs but I'm always annoyed to see businesses never consider just using that vendor money to pay for a quality IT team and using something open source like Proxmox or Apache Cloud.
Especially when its something really basic like VMs and not actual cloud infrastructure.
In this case, that are pissed because they already spent the money. Further I'm sure they started the VMware path likely over 15 years ago, and frankly the alternatives weren't great back then and VMware wasn't as crazy unreasonable.
One could think it's not great that they are going Microsoft for virtualization after being bitten, but I'm positive their infrastructure is Windows based and so for them, it makes sense. I can't imagine that being the desired choice personally, but here we are.