Massive mining company dumps Vmware and Cisco

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Submission + - Massive mining company dumps Vmware and Cisco (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by littlekorea on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:15PM

littlekorea writes: Australia's Fortescue Metals has ported its applications off VMware vSphere and replaced all of its Cisco switches and routers to protest against licensing price hikes. The company's outspoken CIO is encouraging other tech buyers to revolt whenever vendors can't deliver on service promises.

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