[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1 Layered Product Subset Available

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-08 kl. 14:03, skrev Jan-Erik Soderholm:
> Den 2017-04-26 kl. 23:31, skrev Jan-Erik Soderholm:
>> Den 2017-04-26 kl. 17:50, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>>>
>>> Haven't seen it posted here yet, and it's not posted on the VSI web site...
>>>
>>> VSI have announced the availability of a subset of the layered products for
>>> the VSI OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1 release.
>>>
>>> The following products are included:
>>>
>>> ACMS, AvailMan, BASIC, C, C++. COBOL, CXML, DTR, DECdfs, DECforms, DCPS,
>>> DECset, DFO, DCE, DQS, Enterprise Directory LDAP, FMS. Fortran, I18N, MRU,
>>> Pascal, SSM, T4, TDMS
>>>
>>> Licensing changes announced, too.   One VSI ALPHA-SYSTEM PAK for OpenVMS,
>>> one VSI ALPHA-LP PAK for the layered products.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I have been asking VSI for that list. The quote we got in early
>> January refered to some "LP list" but it was not included with the
>> quote.  Now, I was not worried since I had supplied VSI with a
>> list of the used SW on our systems and got an "OK" on that.
>>
>> We now (today) agreed on to go on the 3-year offer from VSI...
> 
> And last week, finaly, the order was sent to VSI and I have received
> the 6 PAKs, one "ALPHA-SYSTEM" and one "ALPHA-LP" for each of the
> three systems). Now waiting for the details around the ISO downloads
> and planning to have at least our test system upgraded during the
> summer holiday. The customer is closed down for the next 4 weeks.
> 
> The delay from April until now is totaly due to internal issues at
> our side, it has nothing to do with VSI.
> 
> In the PAK document (sent as PDFs), apart from the traditional table
> with PAK details, there is also a "LICENSE REGISTER" command.
> 
> Jan-Erik.
> 
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>   (that
>> includes the prods above, and the free x86 migration) for our systems.
>> It was actually cheaper then the offer from HP (MPS w/o SE) with
>> only TCPIP included.
>>
>> Note also that, besides of the LPs above, other "extras" as Cluster,
>> HBVS, multi-process support and so on are also inluded. So, of needed,
>> we can replace our single CPU DS20e with dual CPU DS25s, using the
>> same PAKs and same cost.
>>
>> One could always hope that this is a model for the licensing for
>> the upcomming x86-64 version, but we'll see...
>>
>> I'm also taking for granted that the "VSI ALPHA-SYSTEM" PAK also
>> includes unlimited interactive users, so no "USER" PAKs.
>>
>> As soon as the deal on the licence/support package can go through,
>> and the availablity/download of the media kit has been sorted out,
>> I might come back with some first impressions from our test system.
>>
>> B.t.w, when you quote a 5-digit support contract, why add a extra
>> line with "Media Kit for OpenVMS" at $278 when it is stated that
>> it will be an online ISO download? No big deal, but...
>>
>> Jan-Erik.
>>
> 

ISO files downloaded to our VMS test system. One for the OS and two
for the LP1 and LP2 kits. Looks OK. Can be mounted with LD. The OS
ISO will be copied to a SAN disk so that it can be booted. Next task...

The download was through a sftp link, b.t.w. Worked just OK.