Simon Sharwood writes in »Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform« for theregister.com

CEO Alexander Windbichler told The Register that after Broadcom acquired VMware, increased licensing costs, and made big changes to its partner program, Anexia remained eligible to operate a VMware-powered cloud.

But Windbichler felt he couldn’t afford to continue, because Broadcom offered new terms that saw the cost of VMware licenses rise sharply. The CEO preferred not to enumerate the increase precisely however The Register understands it exceeded 500 percent.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.