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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-10-25, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> 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's what I would be interested in knowing as well.

One of the major complaints around here has been that VSI forced you
to buy your licences again when you moved to VSI VMS.

If VSI have stopped doing that, then I think that's a good thing because
it's one less barrier in the way when thinking about moving from HPE VMS
to VSI VMS.

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

We are getting close to the time when HPE are going to stop offering
hobbyist licences. It would be nice to get some ideas from VSI about
what their hobbyist program is going to look like and when we might
see it.

Simon.

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