Adobe Premiere on Windows was for a very long time the de facto standard, but them stopping to provide affordable personal usage perpetual licenses, just opened the gateway for alternatives, and Da Vinci Resolve really stepped up here, allowing to you run it for free with a majority of features available.

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...

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