Daily Archives: 2024-01-10

Article note: This is chaotic even by dumb vulture-capital tech bullshit standards.

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VMware's new owner is ending the virtualization and cloud computing company's partner programs. It's unclear who or how many current partners will be able to sell VMware-related offerings after April 2024, leaving the potential for tens of thousands of businesses to be disrupted.

Broadcom, which closed its VMware acquisition in November, told The Register in late December that “effective February 5, 2024, Broadcom will be transitioning VMware’s partner programs to the invitation-only Broadcom Advantage Partner Program.” This signaled the end of VMware's partnerships with solution providers, resellers, and distributors. But today’s news reportedly reveals a final closure date for the cloud services provider partner program, which debuted in 2019.

Today, The Register reported that Broadcom recently shared an end-of-partnership date specifically for VMware cloud service provider partners that work with VMware through the VMware Partner Connect Program that launched in 2020.

Article note: It's a bit surprising it is still active. The clearinghouses for other similarly dead platforms of that era (like peanuts for Next) have mostly long since disappeared to only being historical archives. I'm sure the archives will be thorough.