[Info-vax] : Welcome to lockdown - HP limiting access to patches

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 2/15/2011 1:24 AM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article
> <7303308a-71f1-4846-a975-2cf40d174f12 at f36g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
> Neil Rieck<n.rieck at sympatico.ca>  writes:
>
>> Hey hey hey, I now have a fully paid up OpenVMS support agreement,
>> OpenVMS-8.4 CD-ROM kit, and access to the patch site at www.itrc.hp.com.
>> It only took five months (there was lots of stupidity at both ends of
>> the transaction; things would have gone a little faster without
>> Christmas holidays stuck in the middle; I could have saved 4 weeks had
>> I been allowed to use a credit card as HP wanted)  but we can now pick
>> up where we left off last September.
>
> Any idea where a hobbyist (or anyone else who doesn't already have a
> support contract) can get a quote?
>

I think you have to track down someone in sales and nail his feet to the 
floor!

Lots of luck!  I'm afraid you will need it!!