Broadcoms policy seems to be to aim for the larger customers where a 10x price rise for a suite of products isn't an issue. Charging 10x the price to 10% of your customers isn't necessarily a bad strategy for a business.
> Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”
6 months ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40452260
> Steve McDowell, chief analyst at NAND research, told The Register that VMware by Broadcom is “laser focused on high-revenue, high-margin business” and has priced its wares “just below the pain threshold for customers they care about.”