[Info-vax] Does the HPE hobbyist program still exist ?, was: Re: VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-23, Hans Bachner <hans at bachner.priv.at> wrote:
> Rich Jordan schrieb am 22.06.2019 um 17:11:
>> [snip]
>> Has _anyone_ received paks or received response on these in the past few weeks or months?
>
> I received hobbyist PAKs from openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com when I applied 
> back in December last year.
>

I was last in touch with HPE VMS Engineering at the beginning of April.
I used the openvmscustomerlab email address.

Has _anyone_ received hobbyist licence PAKs within the last month ?

> I'm not sure whether this is recent enough for conclusions about the 
> current state.
>

I've sent email to the address asking if the hobbyist program is still
active. I will post any replies I receive.

I have a couple of questions for any VSI employees who might know the answer:

1) Do you know if the HPE hobbyist program is still active ?

2) Does the HPE VMS Engineering team as it was a few months ago still exist ?

For example, if someone were to submit a security issue which affected
Itanium VMS, does HPE still have the VMS people to fix it ?

That second question is prompted by multiple people saying here they
are not receiving _any_ replies from HPE about the hobbyist program.

Note: before anyone asks :-), no I don't know of any such security issues.
I am just using that as an example.

Thanks,

Simon.

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