“Tesco says that during negotiations, VMware made an offer that represented a 175 percent price increase.”
Tesco runs over 5,000 stores and is hiring someone in Bengaluru to rip VMware out of them. Rumour puts the core workloads on Hyper-V. Tesco is also suing VMware over perpetual licenses it already paid for. VMware tried to squeeze 175% more out of a grocer and taught it how to leave.