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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/25/2019 9:25 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> 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...

Ok Jan-Erik, you've already typed the above, but, I can be a bit slow, 
so, can you be very specific?  Are you saying that by having a support 
contract, you have the right to use VSI VMS?  That there are no license 
fees?  Yes, you mentioned Alpha.  I'd hope other architectures would 
also be the same.

That would be great, because to survive, I feel that VSI needs to rely 
on support revenues, and, no up front license fees.

That still leaves the question of non-commercial use of VMS without 
support an open issue.

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