Hardware Vendor Lock-in

Gee...what a huge surprise. /sI suspect that many server vendors are trying to go this way.It actually makes a lot of business sense. It can have more to do with controlling the brand, and consolidating support, than just screwing over customers.But I got fairly sick of Atlassian's stuff, many years ago, so it isn't my monkey, and isn't my circus.

I guess for the same reason most of them keep buying from Intel - their market position allows them to pass on the cost to their customers, so it's not worth the distraction.OpenAI is more of a "one-(very impressive)-trick-pony", so they have a stronger incentive.

That’s a feature. It’s like Broadcom increasing the price of VMWare. They only want rich customers.

Why would they block another great reason for people to buy their hardware?

I'm "anyone" since I know very little about the subject but I'd speculate that they've done a cost-benefit analysis and figured that would be overkill and tie them to proprietary hardware, so that they couldn't easily adapt and take advantage of advances in commodity hardware.

or its upstream vendors should drop them but I doubt they want to lose any money.

One reason I can think of is that the hardware from those vendors is less appealing.

The running conspiracy theory is that they want to sell you support via application engineers.Could be a case of unfit business model leading to wrong incentives.

>This is such a naive take. Bitnami images were a sign of goodwill, a foot in the door at places were the hardened images were actually needed. They just couldn't compete with the better options on the market. This isn't a way to fix it, it's extortion. This is the same thing Terraform Cloud did, and I don't think that product is doing so hot.You seem to be confused about who Broadcom is and how they operate. "Long term health" isn't a thing for them. T

Similar strategy to Broadcom with VMware. Free products apparently don’t convert well enough to justify.