[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/7/19 10:06 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>  
> We attempted to move support from HPE to VSI last year but our management would not approve the purchase of software relicensing by VSI. 

I know this is not what people want to hear and I will be blamed
for the bad news (always shoot the messenger!) but I have seen
this as a potential sticking point since the announcement of the
creation of VSI.

When the recent discussion about Intersystems was going
on I saw it again.  There is a very finite expense in
VARs moving to the new version of VMS.  Both on the
current architecture and on the future new architecture.
One must buy new equipment to develop, test and maintain
the product on the new architecture.  One must buy the
new version of the OS and the necessary licenses to use
it.  And one must weigh that cost against expected revenues.
When one was already considering dropping support it can
become very hard to justify the needed expense when one
has other platforms that more than supply the revenue
to keep the company successful.

Sadly, I think this forced change may be more detrimental
to the continued success of VMS than people either expect
or want.  And, the way HPE is handling their end (at least
from what I can see and my perception of it) is not going
to help.  They wanted to kill VMS.  I think they still do
because its continued success would reflect badly on their
decision to kill it.  I expect they will do nothing to aids
in VSI's successful revival of VMS and quite the contrary
will do all they can to scuttle it.

bill