[Info-vax] OpenSSL CSWS-2.2-1

[Dave Froble]

On 4/13/2019 2:10 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:

> Unfortunately that was not my experience.
>
> In 2015, we purchased a brand new rx2800-i2 from HP and this meant trading in Alpha licenses (OpenVMS, C, C++, BASIC, FMS) to get new Itanium equivalents. The total purchase (which was not cheap) also provided three years of hardware and software support.
>
> Three years later, our software support agreement with HPE was expiring so I reached out to VSI where I was told that I needed to buy new licenses, then upgrade the OS in order to get a one-year support contract. The new business quote from VSI was three times larger than the software support renewal from HPE.
>
> I recommended going with VSI but middle management (who were making the decisions and would need to sign off on the approvals) absolutely refused. From their perspective, we had just bought new licenses 3-years earlier from HP and didn't give a damn about anything else. In fact, one middle-manager said to me (paraphrased) "that if VSI took over the OpenVMS product line from HP/HPE then they (VSI) should honor the HP licenses"
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> While I disagreed with him, I could see his point of view.

I'm going to agree with the manager.  It's just plain stupid of VSI to 
throw away the support contract.  I sure hope their reasoning is not 
"they'll be back, where else can they go".  Management might just decide 
to throw VMS out completely, or, run without support.

Don't know what they are thinking, but, it sure isn't long term ...

Now they get nothing.


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