[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Hans Bachner]

Chris Scheers schrieb am 22.07.2020 um 22:07:
> Hans Bachner wrote:
>> Chris Scheers schrieb am 18.07.2020 um 21:26:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm unaware of any "VAX Portfolio PAK" - what is this?
>>
>> The only PAKs I know that cover multiple products are the 
>> NET-APP-SUP-nnn PAKs whoch include things like DECnet, TCP/IP, 
>> DECwindows, VMScluster and others depending on the value of "nnn".
> 
> I know of three "Portfolio" PAKs:
> 
> BASE-PROG-DEV-PORTFOLIO
> EXT-PROG-DEV-PORTFOLIO
> PROG-DEV-RT-PORTFOLIO
> 
> These all seem to be for programing/development.
> 
> No SIPs (VAXcluster, DECwindows, DECNET, etc.) are included.
> 
> The RT PAK provides runtime licenses for various products.  For example, 
> ACMS, NOTES, RALLY, RDB, etc.
> 
> EXT is a superset of BASE.  These provide access to various development 
> products such as compilers, VAXELN, SCAN, etc.

Thanks for sharing the details - I've never heard of those before.

Hans.