[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 15:35:27 UTC+1, Robert A. Brooks  wrote:
> On 6/17/2015 8:02 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > Simon Clubley skrev den 2015-06-17 13:00:
>   
> >> This is obviously not an issue for x86-64 where new products will have
> >> to be bought anyway...
> >
> > Maybe wait until we know if you actually have to *buy* new kits... :-)
>   
> For IA64, if you want the VSI-branded version of the operating system
> or layered product, you will have to purchase a VSI license (can be purchased
> from HP or directly from us), discounted heavily off the "list price" for
> license trade-ins for existing customers.
> 
> This is not exactly new information.
> 
> -- 
> 
>                        -- Rob

It may not be new information, but has anyone documented this stuff
anywhere, in a simple comprehensible way which will be helpful to
prospective customers (including customers in areas where VSI are
not directly represented)?

I mean, reading here about the internals of PCSI vs VMSINSTAL has
its attractions for some (including me), as does reading about VSI
on Facebook for some, but sooner or later there needs to be enough
detail in the plan to enable customers to order stuff and thereby
bring some revenue in for VSI.

Doubtless this is understood internally at VSI. It probably needs
to be visible externally in a customer-friendly format too, maybe
in a format accessible to those who don't get to Encompass sessions
and the like, before too long.

That probably sounds rather negative. It's not intended to. Sorry.