[Info-vax] Business Practices, Patches (was: Re: c 7.3 - Why MAYLOSEDATA3 for long pointer math?)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-15 13:41:45 +0000, John Reagan said:

> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 8:36:21 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> 
>> 
>> We know what we had with HP.  Not much.  Perhaps we should wait to see  
>> how VSI handles these issues.
>> 
>> I'm hoping they already have a database in the works for recording 
>> every  VMS contact they can get their hands on, and have catagories, 
>> such as  hobbyist, developer, student, user, etc.  I'd hope they 
>> maintain contact  with everyone in the database, and solicite 
>> responses.  A very close  relationship with users of all types could be 
>> advantageous.  Keeping in contact with recent graduates could be one 
>> good thing.

Ayup.  It's what I'd do, too.  Fully end-to-end here within the CRM 
package or local environment; the contact data, common customer 
accounts and common site logins and password, entitlements, LMF PAK 
generation, and the rest.  Though that's a decent-sized project and a 
whole lot of overhead, when the likely goal here is getting "Bolton" 
out the door.

> I still have the ability to remember things for more than a few hours. :)

Who are you and what have you done with John?  :-)

> I'm certainly more in-sync with the people in this group.  I'm happy to 
> do what I can with the resources we have.  However, I doubt that VSI 
> has the authority to simply give away ECOs to Hobbyists contrary to 
> HP's policies.  All that fine print is above my paygrade and I'll 
> managers discuss it via email and phone calls.

I would hope VSI has control over its prices for "Bolton" and later and 
that HP can charge what they want, but then there are various other 
bits of business-practices that also haven't been announced yet.  Pero 
yo no sé.


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