[Info-vax] VSI Webinar 9-April

[Dave Froble]

On 3/29/2019 5:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-03-29, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Just signed up for the VSI Webinar at the 9-April.
>> (There are three differnt times to cover all/most TZ's).
>>
>> The agenda:
>>
>> - VSI Senior Managers Terry Holmes and Eddie Orcutt will discuss
>>     the latest decision by HPE to discontinue selling new VSI licenses
>>     and support and provide an update on new VSI products including
>>     the x-86 product.
>>
>> Just if someone else is interested...
>>
>> http://vmssoftware.com/updates_webinars.html
>>
>
> I did not know about HPE stopping those sales.
>
> Does anyone know why, given that HPE have a while to go before
> they stop supporting their own VMS customers ?
>
> On the face of it, that could be bad for VSI (at least when it
> comes to some customers) because there will be those who are more
> comfortable dealing with a large established company like HPE rather
> than a startup like VSI.
>
> BTW, in this case, it's not what _we_ think when it comes to HPE vs VSI.
> What matters is what the people with the cheque books think.
>
> Simon.
>

I've seen the mentality.  Without getting into names and places, a 
software vendor didn't deliver what was agreed to.

Three times, count them, 1, 2, 3, the customer went to the vendor, and 
asked the question, "what will it take to get what was agreed upon?" 
Each time the vendor quoted an amount, and the customer coughed up the 
money.  Each time the vendor put an incompetent person on the project, 
counted off the money as an hourly charge, and when the money ran out, 
stopped the work.

Frankly, after the first time, when the lesson wasn't learned, I stopped 
feeling sorry for the customer.  There was another vendor which could 
have completed the project, the customer talked to them, but then would 
go back to the crooks.

So, if there are any fools who still want to throw money at HPE, I'm 
sure HPE will figure out some way to take the money, but, they will most 
likely never give back any value for the money.

Have at, if you must ....

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