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AT&T filed a lawsuit against Broadcom on August 29 accusing it of seeking to \u201cretroactively change existing VMware contracts to match its new corporate strategy.\u201d The lawsuit, spotted by Channel Futures<\/a>, concerns claims that Broadcom is not letting AT&T renew support services for previously purchased perpetual VMware software licenses unless AT&T meets certain conditions.<\/p>\n

Broadcom closed its $61 billion VMware acquisition<\/a> in November and swiftly enacted sweeping changes<\/a>. For example, in December, Broadcom announced the end of VMware perpetual license sales<\/a> in favor of subscriptions of bundled products. Combined with higher core requirements per CPU subscription, complaints\u00a0ensued<\/a> that VMware was getting more expensive<\/a> to work with.<\/p>\n

AT&T uses VMware software to run 75,000 virtual machines (VMs) across about 8,600 servers, per the complaint filed at the Supreme Court of the State of New York [PDF<\/a>]. It reportedly uses the VMs to support customer service operations and for operations management efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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