We will be reading case studies about this in the not too distant future.
and ESXi free version with reduced features offered the same approach. This broadcom change will push the majority to alternatives, for personal and professional use.
previously there was basically no contender for polished enterprise ready hypervisors, small business were all VMware shops. These will all convert to alternative technologies, shifting the balance.
vmware might turn out to be the AS400 of hypervisors...
They're also useful if they're a decision-maker looking for a different solution.
If I were a virtualisation tech company right now I'd be throwing free non-commercial or limited commercial use licences around to try to steal Broadcom's market share.