[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/13/2018 12:40 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-13 02:44:23 +0000, Milton Baar said:
>> 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.

Maybe they would settle for just a free educational license program.

I think the cost to VSI of such would be very small.

Arne