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# CISPE gives Broadcom red rating over VMware licensing practices
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-10-29-cispe-ecco-report-broadcom-red-alert/
- Published: 2025-10-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T12:02:58.000Z
- Description: CISPE's European Cloud Competition Observatory gave Broadcom its most critical red rating, saying VMware licence prices rose by a factor of ten or more after the acquisition.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #opinion, #editor-read

Verified Opinion Editor-read [CISPE European Cloud Competition Observatory, third report, 29 October 2025](https://www.cispe.cloud/website%5Fcispe/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ECCO-third-report-2025%5F10%5F29.pdf?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the European Commission has opened or concluded an antitrust case over these claims, since this is CISPE's own assessment.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-13\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)