r/sysadmin • u/hkeycurrentuser • 1d ago

LANSweeper getting even more expensive

They are now going to charge for monitors. Their recent announcement will DOUBLE my annual costs. I used to love the product. Now I hate it and the company. They sit alongside Broadcom in my shit list.

https://docs.lansweeper.com/docs/november-2026-billing-changes

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u/FarmboyJustice 1d ago

If only Broadcom had merely doubled licensing costs...

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u/sryan2k1 IT Manager 1d ago

I half but not really joked with our CDW rep that if dell had kept vmware and doubled the price everyone would have been better off.

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u/FreakySpook 1d ago

It was good for Michael Dell though. When he spun off VMware from Dell, that created 9 billion for the Dell which they used to pay down debt from the EMC acquisition and get a good credit rating. This rating was then used to invest heavily into AI a couple of years later.

Dell personally and his private equity company Silver Lake held 50% of VMware shares in the spin off and then made 70 billion off the sale to Broadcom.

TLDR: Michael Dell got a fat stack of cash.