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

[Rich Jordan]

On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 7:30:02 AM UTC-5, 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.
> 
> 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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> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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I received an email this morning from my weekend submission after joining DECUServe and using that info, with Paks good through July 2020.

No response on the two sent using the two different possible member numbers with Connect/Encompass as the user group.

Rich