OffVendor Vendor Watch https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/ Weekly notes on vendor licensing and pricing moves that change the case for migrating off, with the migration path to act on each. en Three years into Broadcom's VMware, the renewal math has stopped moving https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-20-broadcom-vmware-three-years-in https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-20-broadcom-vmware-three-years-in vSphere renewals have settled into subscription-only, per-core bundle pricing; the variable that keeps improving is the exit tooling, not the bill. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenBao keeps closing the Vault gap under the Linux Foundation https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-13-openbao-vault-parity https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-13-openbao-vault-parity The Vault exit keeps getting cheaper: OpenBao's release cadence has held since the IBM acquisition of HashiCorp closed, and the fork remains API-compatible for the core workflows. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Oracle Java's per-employee metric keeps pulling database estates into negotiations https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-06-oracle-java-audit-spillover https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-07-06-oracle-java-audit-spillover Java audit exposure is increasingly the opening move in broader Oracle negotiations; database teams should model their exit BATNA before the letter arrives. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two years after CentOS 7's end of life, the stragglers are the story https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-29-centos-aftermath-two-years https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-29-centos-aftermath-two-years Unconverted CentOS 7 estates are now two years unpatched; the conversion to Rocky or Alma remains one of the most mechanical migrations in this index. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Citrix platform licensing keeps raising the floor for small and mid-size estates https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-22-citrix-commitment-pricing https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-22-citrix-commitment-pricing Citrix's move to platform-bundle licensing with minimum commitments prices out smaller VDI estates; the open alternatives are gateways, not clones, and the guides say so honestly. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Post-acquisition Splunk renewals arrive bundled with the Cisco relationship https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-15-splunk-cisco-renewal-pressure https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-15-splunk-cisco-renewal-pressure Splunk pricing conversations now run through Cisco's enterprise-agreement machinery; ingest-based costs remain the exit driver, and the SPL estate remains the exit cost. Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Proxmox's built-in ESXi importer has quietly become the default first move https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-08-proxmox-esxi-import-maturity https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-08-proxmox-esxi-import-maturity The live-import wizard Proxmox shipped in VE 8.2 has matured across releases; for plain VMs the VMware exit is now closer to a storage-speed problem than a tooling problem. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenTofu is becoming the default for new infrastructure code https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-01-opentofu-default-choice https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-06-01-opentofu-default-choice With state compatibility holding and registries mirrored, starting new projects on OpenTofu has become the low-drama default; existing Terraform estates migrate module by module. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT XenServer holdouts have the cheapest exit in virtualization, and a closing excuse https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-05-25-xcpng-xenserver-window https://offvendor.com/vendor-watch/#2026-05-25-xcpng-xenserver-window XCP-ng remains a near drop-in fork of XenServer with the same VM formats; per-socket subscription pricing under Cloud Software Group keeps making the swap pay back in one renewal. Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT