[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[John Wallace]

On Aug 22, 11:20 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> On 2010-08-22 20:51, John Wallace wrote:
>
> > A single named user for DEC C for OpenVMS was £800 list, and the
> > debugger is included with the OS at no extra cost.
>
> > Obviously if you have lots of developers there's a break-even point
> > where system wide licensing is more cost effective.
>
> On the system(s) I inherited 2 years ago, all compiles are runed
> of a specific batch queue using the "named user" of the licenses.
> All licens are 1 single "name user". This worked fine even back
> in the hay-days when this site had 5-6 developers. Yes, the
> compiles are serialized but that is usualy not a problem.
> A developer spend most of his time in the editor, right ? :-)
>
> B.t.w, I do not think those "named user" licenses are available
> today, are they ?
>
> Jan-Erik.

[briefly back again]

Sssshhh. You're giving away trade secrets.

I don't know if "named user" licences are around today, but based on a
quote I saw earlier this year for an IA64 box to replace an older VMS
system, they're not needed (not to save money anyway). The £800 that
in 1994 got you a named user licence for DEC C now gets you an
unrestricted licence for "DEC C" on an entry level IA64/VMS box.