At least until they start migrating away from VMware and your new client stream completely dries up.
This is a feature. They take a product that you can’t easily move off of, like VMware or Symantec. They jack up the prices. A few people leave, but some people struggle to leave and pay lots of money. Demand drops, they cut most of the staff and put the product on life support, and eventually they kill it. By that time they’ve bought another company to do the same.
It’s what we always did with cows. To have a dairy cow you need to repeatedly get it pregnant. Why keep feeding an older less productive cow that has already calved 4 or 5 times when you’ve already got yourself a few new heifers.
fyi most dairy cows are kept beyond the age of 3. You can see on the World Dairy Expo YouTube channel that there are cows producing up to the age of 6.
Heifers reach puberty at about 12 months old, but some delay until up to 20 months old. After breeding they gestate for 283 days (almost 9 1/2 months), give birth to their calf and give milk for about 10 months. “Culling” a cow at the age of three would mean only getting 2 full lactation cycles of milk from them, which isn’t super economical.
You’re not too far off the mark, though: once any individual animal becomes less profitable than a new one could be, they get culled.
Said it before, they’re dumping low value customers for high value customers. This can be a legit strategy!
But not in this case. As you said, they’re going to milk the cow dead. We wouldn’t touch VMware with a ten-foot frog. Leaning into Proxmox ATM, working great so far.
This is a feature. They take a product that you can’t easily move off of, like VMware or Symantec. They jack up the prices. A few people leave, but some people struggle to leave and pay lots of money. Demand drops, they cut most of the staff and put the product on life support, and eventually they kill it. By that time they’ve bought another company to do the same.
They’re basically just milking old cows to death.
Totally unrelated, but that’s actually what we’re doing with cows. Killing them of at age 3 bc they don’t give enough milk anymore
It’s what we always did with cows. To have a dairy cow you need to repeatedly get it pregnant. Why keep feeding an older less productive cow that has already calved 4 or 5 times when you’ve already got yourself a few new heifers.
fyi most dairy cows are kept beyond the age of 3. You can see on the World Dairy Expo YouTube channel that there are cows producing up to the age of 6.
Heifers reach puberty at about 12 months old, but some delay until up to 20 months old. After breeding they gestate for 283 days (almost 9 1/2 months), give birth to their calf and give milk for about 10 months. “Culling” a cow at the age of three would mean only getting 2 full lactation cycles of milk from them, which isn’t super economical.
You’re not too far off the mark, though: once any individual animal becomes less profitable than a new one could be, they get culled.
Yeah, im not that big on the details, since I don’t support those industries at all.
Said it before, they’re dumping low value customers for high value customers. This can be a legit strategy!
But not in this case. As you said, they’re going to milk the cow dead. We wouldn’t touch VMware with a ten-foot frog. Leaning into Proxmox ATM, working great so far.