[Info-vax] VSI Webinar 9-April

[Dave Froble]

On 4/4/2019 11:16 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 4/4/2019 7:55 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> We (VSI) cannot offer engineering support on any HPE version of VMS.

Idle speculation, it's a slow morning ....

One wonders if HP(e) actively wants all users off their versions of VMs, 
for various reasons,

or,

Perhaps HP(e) would relax such restraints once they are fully out of the 
VMS business, (which they basically are already).

Then comes the question, would VSI want that business, since it is not 
what they shouold be spending time on?

> By "engineering support", I mean that we cannot build patches to fix problems found.

I'm assuming you already have, for VSI releases, or will do so when any 
are found.

> We can offer phone support, although I don't know if we'll do that.

Read as "we have better things to do".

Anybody that will continue to use current release VMS should be on a VSI 
version.  Others, don't matter ....


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