[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[gérard Calliet]

> 
> Maybe they would settle for just a free educational license program.
> 
> I think the cost to VSI of such would be very small.
> 
> Arne
> 
Phase 1: easy to use bundled (Alpha Emulator/VMS VSI license) ; it seems 
to be at small cost.
Phase 2a: helping all the existing projects quoted by Stephen finding 
new human resources, because the old quasi-retired VMS could retry for 
free, and it is possible to help new genius (like Camiel) to try and taste
Phase 2b: explaining to the scientific world something of interest is 
there (things done on youtube by Camiel or John are good examples on that)
Phase 2b': folks like here or in other resilient VMS users club using 
these resources and their experience to "do the buzz" around VMS
Phase 3: Because something is emergent, time to build things in 
universities.

Cost phase 1 (small) : ==> VSI 50% ; ==> users club 50%
ROI: small

Cost phase 2 (big) : ==> VSI 10% ; ==> VMS community 90%
ROI: big, and necessary to survive the 2 next years

Cost phase 3 (medium): ==> VSI 70 % ; ==> new VMS genius 30%
ROI: huge

Compared to the necessity, and comparing very small investment to huge 
benefits, it is *THE* *first* marketing investment VSI should do.

(why they don't understand that for a very few investment they garanty 
their success, and why the community doesn't help much, it's a cultural 
problem about VMS ecosystem which could be examined elsewhere).

For now, it seems it's toot early to try with universities.

Perhaps some initiatives by users club offering MOOCs, 2 day free 
seminars involving local companies which depend on VMS...
Example in France: with the help of a french company 
(http://www.sysgroup.fr/node/6.html) a VMS agent for the supervision 
project exists. We had a presentation of it last oracle technical forum 
(https://www.vmsgenerations.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/8_Zabbix_Agent_OpenVMS_v2_Paris_Jean-Francois_Pieronne_13dec17.pdf) 
. The french geek who maintains Zabbix in France knows now VMS, and is 
very interersed on it . This sort of contact could be used in a seminar 
about "supervision and old-new systems" in universities.

[[[[Just do it]]] (no I'm neither a yippy nor a yuppy, I just think 
sometimes it's time to do things)

Gérard Calliet