[Info-vax] VSI online marketing meeting

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/27/18 6:11 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-02-27 kl. 11:18, skrev IanD:

>> It's full :-(
>>
> 
> I can't help seeing that as something positive, maybe not for you,
> but for the community and for VMS at large... :-)

They said the slides will be up on their website sometime soon. For
people who have been following the roadmap, periodic port status
updates, and various other presentations from the Boot Camp and
elsewhere that were made public, there wasn't a huge amount that was
new, but there were a few things I hadn't heard before, or that seem
worth repeating. In no particular order and with the caveat that this is
what I thought I heard, subject to correction.

VSI business doubled between 2016 and 2017.

VSI support contracts purchased now include rights to upgrade, which
includes rights to x86_64 releases. As far as I know, platform switches
have previously always involved buying new licenses, albeit sometimes
with a trade-in discount.

They have agreements or statements of support for products from seven
big storage vendors. One is Kove, which I'd never heard of, who sells
virtual storage based on DRAM, not flash. NetApp is still a work in
progress, which means we're still running unsupported at my day job.

There is a steadily growing list of layered products and open source
ports being added to the portfolio. I believe it was OMNI/OSAP, GKS, and
syslogd that were mentioned as being newly available.

It sounded like VSI TCP/IP 10.5 has been delayed by a quarter or two but
is still coming this year.

There is a developer program in progress with three tiers. There will be
an announcement soon.

There is an education program in the works.

They still intend to take over the hobbyist program, but it sounds like
that will be after both developer and education programs are up and running.

There will be a webinar series announced on March 12 (or maybe that was
the inaugural webinar?).

That's what I remember.