[Info-vax] Thoughts on VSI Community License Program

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-13, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
>
> I got a response on the VSI Forums <https://forum.vmssoftware.com/> to my question about clustering for Integrity.  This is it:
>

If they also don't allow clustering in the hobbyist licence for x86-64,
then that could be a really big mistake. People are more likely to check
out this new thing called VMS if it's got a unique selling point that they
can play with free of charge.

VMS style operating system level clustering combined with HBVS support
is still unique enough that it might attract people to learning how to
use it as a hobbyist and then compare it to other clustering solutions
they are aware of.

Take those things away and VMS doesn't really have anything unique over
what you can do elsewhere.

>
> I had to go check what he said about the HP license and I was surprised to see that it's true.  It's in the PAK files that HP sent out. I suppose we never looked it over closely when HP took over the Hobbyist program.
>

How does that tie in with the text from HPE about how we don't have to
apply for a hobbyist licence for each machine we are running HPE VMS on ?

Simon.

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