[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/13/18 4:17 PM, Milton Baar wrote:
> On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 4:40:40 AM UTC+11, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2018-12-13 02:44:23 +0000, Milton Baar said:
>>
>>> https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/643780/university-canberra-revives-mainframe-degree-course/
>>>
>>>
>>> So given that there are quite likely OpenVMS sites that are common, and
>>> I personally know of quite a few that have both OpenVMS and SystemZ,
>>> would VSI be interested in partnering with an Australian University?
>>
>> By "partnering" and "opportunity" here, may I presume that what is
>> meant is "granting free software and free hardware, granting free
>> hardware and software support and quite probably including on-site
>> installation and maintenance, and granting an endowment* sufficient to
>> cover staff and incidentals and sundries and the use of the
>> University's name and reputation in associated advertising", right?
>>
>> Most schools are understandably interested in acquiring endowments
>> after all, though—being endowments—these often do include terms and
>> conditions.
>>
>> At least for the next several years, VSI would seemingly have a few
>> other and higher-priority uses for any cash surfeit they might
>> encounter.
>>
>> *big wads of cash with strings attached, in the vernacular.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
> 
> Or perhaps just granting an educational or discounted license...there is plenty of inexpensive hardware around...and I don't think an endowment would be either needed or likely.
> 
> This could be a way for OpenVMS to be back in the educational sector with the possibly positive flow-on effects.  I don't think that the IBM arrangement is an act of charity on their behalf, they understand the benefits as DEC once did.
> 

HP had a costless education license. It did not help keep VMS
around Universities it was already at and certainly didn't
bring it into new locations.  Trust me, I know.  I fought
that battle until finally being told the equipment had to be
removed.

bill