Do you believe regulatory intervention is necessary to address the concerns raised by trade groups like the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers of Europe (CISPE) regarding the pricing and business model changes Broadcom is making to VMWare?

The potential increases in costs will cause buyers to look critically at software providers that only support ESXi as the hypervisor. Previously the choice of Hypervisor rarely figured into the selection of products. Now the question is going to be 'do you run under Hyper-v/KVM/Qemu/etc.

Conclusion:  What an opportunity to make the business case for not taking for granted/relying on a single technology.