Post by Matt Everton

A lot of Omnissa Horizon customers are quietly doing the math right now and not liking the answer. Since the VMware business was broken up and Horizon was spun out under new private equity ownership, the licensing model changed. Perpetual licenses are gone. It’s subscription only now. And the renewal numbers landing in inboxes are a lot higher than what these teams were paying a couple years ago. Here’s the part that makes it harder. The roadmap is uncertain. You’re paying more for a platform and you’re not totally sure where it’s headed. Every quarter you stay is a quarter paying premium pricing for a question mark. The teams handling this well aren’t panic migrating. They’re starting with a clear assessment of what they actually run today, then mapping each workload to where it belongs. Some to AVD. Some to Windows 365. Some to Windows 365 Flex for the part time and seasonal users. That assessment is exactly what Nerdio Compass was built for. And support for Omnissa Horizon environments is on the way, joining the Citrix assessment that’s already live. If you’re on Horizon and staring at a renewal, the worst move is to renew on autopilot without knowing what your alternatives actually look like. What’s keeping Horizon shops from moving faster? The migration effort or something else?