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

[andreas.fassl at googlemail.com]

Am Montag, 24. Juni 2019 20:31:26 UTC+2 schrieb Rich Jordan:
> On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 7:30:02 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > On 2019-06-23, Hans Bachner <> 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 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon Clubley, cP
> > Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
> 
> 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

Active licenses on node STUDNT:

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AVAIL-MAN DEC 0 0 100 0.0 (none) 25-MAY-2020
BASIC DEC 0 0 100 0.0 (none) 25-MAY-2020
C DEC 0 0 100 0.0 (none) 25-MAY-2020
CMS DEC 0 0 100 0.0 (none) 25-MAY-2020

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BTW - according to Hari he has got some outlook issues:
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OpenVMS Customer Lab schrieb:

    Hello Andreas,

     

    Very sorry about the delay; but Outlook have moved your e-mail to the Spam folder - it does do this occasionally with bona fide e-mail like yours.  So I check back every 7-10 days to mop up the folder and catch the good ones.

     

    The FTP links to all the latest Hobbyist kits (though they’re all pretty old), for the 3 platforms, are below.

     

    Also (and you might know) that the x86 port is being done by VSI (VMS Software Inc.), and you can inquire with them if they have a Hobbyist program of their own  (the HPE driven Hobbyist program won’t be around forever)…

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