[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Rich Jordan via
> Info-vax
> Sent: December 18, 2018 11:02 AM
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> Cc: Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?
> 
> On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 3:47:28 PM UTC-6, Dave Froble wrote:
> > On 12/17/2018 1:00 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> > > I've wondered if DEC, or now VSI could make a minimal 'quorum node'
> > > to live on the network and do nothing but the bare minumum to be a
> > > low resource low cost (and low hindrance) 'vote' for a LAVC.  Some
> > > of our customers kept an old VAX or VAXstation around for that
> > > purpose when they downsized from VAX/11 systems with star couplers
> > > and HSCs to microVAXen or early Alpha LAVCs; they did nothing any
> > > more but act as the third node.
> > >
> >
> > I'm going to suggest that such an idea isn't worthwhile today.  In the
> > past, yes.
> >
> > With the rather low cost of x86 stuff, without any special work,
> > having a third compute engine would be easier, and cheaper.  No
> > special work for VSI, or anyone.
> >
> > Got to be ready to re-look at things, based on what can be done today.
> >
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> 
> Dave
>      the hardware is cheap.  That third cluster license is not.  If a
quorum-only
> node license cost a tiny fraction of a full node then you can build a non-
> shared-storage two node LAVC without a master/slave node without having
> to pay for a third full cluster member.  Thats the only reason for it; if
its going
> to cost full cluster node price, then you are correct that its not worth
it.

>From what has been discussed in various threads here, the VSI OpenVMS X86-64
licensing model may be changing to something similar to Red Hat Linux i.e. a
tier based support subscription model.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com