Danube Technologies Inc. is a small maker of software tools for Scrum and agile programmers. While Danube’s technology and audience is cutting-edge, its licensing model is old school. Several weeks ...

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.

Broadcom appears to be doing its best to make like hell for VMware customers by killing off VMware's on-premises perpetual licenses. Its next plan is to “encourage” VMware customers onto subscriptions ...

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 ...

“It’s created a demand spike for the product. Customers on VMware environments mostly prefer to lock in their perpetual licensing for three more years before any price increases kick in,” one VxRail ...

Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses ...