[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Chris Scheers]

John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 7/17/2020 6:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 
>> Now who thinks HPe will give a damn and spend one red cent on any 
>> legal action?
>>
>> Rather than a "rabbit full", why not a single license usable by anyone?
>>
> 
> Because, as you should know, there is no one license PAK for 
> everything.  VAX/VMS needs a PAK.  x users or unlimited users needs 
> another PAK.  DECnet needs a PAK. UCX/TCPIP needs a PAK.  VAXcluster 
> needs a PAK.  Volume Shadowing needs a PAK.  BASIC needs a PAK.  Cobol 
> needs a PAK.  Fortran needs a PAK. Pascal needs a PAK.  Get where I'm 
> going?  Maybe not the 107 PAKS that came with the Hobbyist bundle (Does 
> anyone really need HANZI DW-Motif?) but still a goodly number of 
> different PAKs will be required.
> 
>> I think Terry deserves an "atta-boy" for this information.

FWIW: The VAX Portfolio PAK covers many (most?) of the layered products.

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