cynicalsecurity :cm_2: on Nostr: An Oracle offer for 15 (fifteen, one-five) licenses for VirtualBox on Linux. ...
An Oracle offer for 15 (fifteen, one-five) licenses for VirtualBox on Linux.
€23'913,00
That's twenty-three thousand, nine-hundred and thirteen euros.
For VirtualBox, not VMware Workstation which actually works very well, VirtualBox.
All this because the imbeciles at Broadcom will not sell you VMware, or at least have now made it impossible to talk to anyone about buying VMware.
This is how you convince a client to put money into supporting the development of open-source alternatives like QEMU and KVM for Linux to be able to run Windows 11 well-enough that you never have to pay these extortionate prices.
I guess that's a silver lining.
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