[Info-vax] VMS Software, Inc. Acquires All OpenVMS Support Business from Hewlett Packard Enterprise

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-10-25 kl. 14:11, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2019-10-25, Ian Miller <gxys at uk2.net> wrote:
>>
>> Effectively support is done by VSI now as they handle L2/L3 for all versions.
>>
>> I don't know if there is anyone left doing VMS Engineering at HPE. I wonder if they will do a final patch release for V8.4 before the end of 2020 then pack up shop.
>>
> 
> There's still some people there because Hobbyist licences are still
> being issued.
> 
>> Licences are a different question - ask HPE.
> 
> HPE isn't the issue here - it's VSI.
> 
> VSI required you to pay for your licences again (with a discount IIRC)
> before you could start using VSI VMS and the VSI layered products.
> 

We just signed support contracts for our Alphas.
There were no specific license fees. And the right
to use for x86-64 is included. Don't know if that
is different for IA64...


> I was wondering if they are still doing that if the transfer of
> support contracts from HPE to VSI is now enforced instead of being
> optional (as it has been up to now).
> 
> Simon.
>