[Info-vax] VSI Webinar 9-April

[Neil Rieck]

On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 5:50:01 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-03-29, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> > Just signed up for the VSI Webinar at the 9-April.
> > (There are three differnt times to cover all/most TZ's).
> >
> > The agenda:
> >
> > - VSI Senior Managers Terry Holmes and Eddie Orcutt will discuss
> >    the latest decision by HPE to discontinue selling new VSI licenses
> >    and support and provide an update on new VSI products including
> >    the x-86 product.
> >
> > Just if someone else is interested...
> >
> > http://vmssoftware.com/updates_webinars.html
> >
> 
> I did not know about HPE stopping those sales.
> 
> Does anyone know why, given that HPE have a while to go before
> they stop supporting their own VMS customers ?
> 
> On the face of it, that could be bad for VSI (at least when it
> comes to some customers) because there will be those who are more
> comfortable dealing with a large established company like HPE rather
> than a startup like VSI.
> 
> BTW, in this case, it's not what _we_ think when it comes to HPE vs VSI.
> What matters is what the people with the cheque books think.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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I forget where I saw it, but HPE will no longer offer OpenVMS software support of any kind after 2020.

Speculation: "I think" VSI does not offer "engineering support" for OpenVMS-8.4 but HPE does. So "I think" when HPE exits that business then VSI will pick it up.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net