[Info-vax] VSI online marketing meeting

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-02-28 kl. 04:37, skrev 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.
> 

We run on IBM SAN (V7000 systems), and they is also missing from the
picture VSI shows. Now, this is supported from the IBM side so far, but
it would feel better if it was supported from both sides, so to speak.

I would rather prefer that they talk with the big players instead of
some fancy newcommers that most have never heard of...

I also asked if there was any discussions between VSI and STORserver or
(Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc) about their "Archive Backup Client
for TSM on OpenVMS" product that we use for backup. But I'll ask them
directly abour x86 support...


> 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?).

I missed that note. There will also be a VMS-SIG meeting 23-24 April at the
Swedish VSI office that I'll try to attend...

> 
> That's what I remember.