Broadcom abandons minimum license requirement of 72 cores for VMware

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Is this accurate?

Hard to tell... there are a couple of similar (kinda noname) articles on the web, all 3-5 days old. I would have expected this to appear by now on the register, or on ars technica, both followed this story reasonably close...

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/arrow_vmware_licensin... but its also just saying "a distributor claims ..."

Yes, that's part of what I'm talking about.

And the OP is about the reversal of this.

oops, misread that, apologies. Somehow I thought I had seen register mention the re-introduced free version and a lower core count, not a higher one.

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