SaaS offers a cloud hosted option that offers multiple payment options. For example, if your licenses are up for renewal this year (in 2021), it would be for three years and it would be your last renewal since you are unable to renew the perpetual licenses beyond May 2025.Īlternatively, you can upgrade to their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or term subscription models. If you already have VMware Horizon perpetual licensing, you can still renew it for a three-year term at this point for a final possible expiration date in or before May 2025. Then again, you may shrug at this – we’ve been paying for support and maintenance on a yearly or multi-year basis anyway, right? That is, say goodbye to paying upfront for and owning your Horizon licensing – it’s a subscription now. As of you will not be able to purchase perpetual VMware Horizon licensing. Well, consistent with the industry’s vicious focus on making everything recurring revenue, VMware Horizon’s perpetual licensing model is going the way of the dodo. It can be a very powerful tool for some organizations, especially when serving a disparate, remote workforce.

VMware Horizon is a platform for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and allows organizations to virtualize desktops or applications for a more centralized system of IT service delivery.

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