[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 11/16/2019 7:00 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2019-11-16, Alexander Schreiber <als at usenet.thangorodrim.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anybody know what the current state of the OpenVMS hobbyist program
>>> is, if it is still alive?
>>>
>>
>> It should be.
> 
> Good to know, thanks.
> 
>> The Hobbyist program is managed by VMS Engineering in India so
>> responses to hobbyist requests are done on India business time.
>>

Not to mention that it's pretty much one engineer named Hari and sometimes he misses an email.  It doesn't hurt to re-apply again after a few days.  Best is to time it during the week and daytime in India if you can. Another possibility is an email to openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com asking about your application. That could also jog the process.

>> Did you fill in the field which asks what you are using the
>> hobbyist program for ?
> 
> Yep, IIRC "Hobbyist use and learning about VMS" or something like that.
> 
>> It's not marked as mandatory, but HPE have refused to process
>> licence renewal requests of mine in the past until I filled in
>> that field.
>>
>> BTW, to any VSI people reading this, do you know what the current
>> state of the VSI hobbyist plans are ?
> 
> Kind regards,
>             Alex.
> 


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John H. Reinhardt