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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/24/2019 8:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

It just would not surprise me if one day the entire thing was shut down 
with no notice to anyone.  Well, there is the notice about HPe shutting 
down VMS efforts.

> 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 ?

Yes, in the employee line ....

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

It was my impression that support work had been transferred to VSI?



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