Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks
Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute
UK retail giant Tesco is replacing VMware with an alternative product and pressing ahead with its licensing lawsuit against the virtualization pioneer's parent company, Broadcom, in a matter due to be heard by the UK's High Court starting in November 2027.
The roots of the matter are a January 2021 contract that saw Tesco acquire perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla's Tanzu products.
The supermarket giant also signed up for support services and software upgrades until 2026, with an option to extend that deal for four years. Computacenter signed up as a reseller and relied on Dell as the distributor of VMware's products. Tesco also uses some of Broadcom's mainframe software, and wanted to extend support for that too.
Tesco and VMware struck that deal before Broadcom...
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