[Info-vax] question about VSI licensing

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-07-25 13:56:38 +0000, Robert A. Brooks said:

> For IA64, the model has not changed from HPE.

DEC's LMF design was and is wonderfully flexible and elegant for the 
LMF developers and for the folks creating licenses.

Less than user-friendly for the folks using and variously paying for 
the licenses, though.

This having just gone through another couple of rounds with LMF.  And I 
know how it works.

> However, it's my understanding that if you trade in your HPE licenses, 
> you can get a substantial discount on the VSI licenses.

Or as I prefer to refer to that: if you license a wholly-new OpenVMS 
deployment with VSI, you pay more for your licenses.

> For Alpha, it's a simpler model, with a single PAK for all LP's that I 
> *think* is included with the OS license.  In other words, if you 
> purchase an Alpha OS license from us, you get the LP license included.

VSI OpenVMS Alpha has a pair of PAKs.  If you're stuck with LMF, 
OpenVMS Alpha licensing is less hostile than it has been.


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