[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-23, Rod Regier <rregier at dymaxion.ca> wrote:
> I've gotten some non VAX/VMS license prices out of Jon Fellman.
> One of my customers successfully purchased permanent BOE and DFG licenses for OpenVMS/I64 from him.
>
> He's legally reselling licenses that were used on HP(E) leases that have concluded.
>
> I doubt any VAX/VMS licenses are available from terminated leases.
>

I don't understand. This is either a HP or HPE employee selling licences
for a HPE product. Why doesn't HPE just issue new VAX/VMS licences and
take the customer's money, while making it clear the customer is buying
the licence as-is without support ?

> Apparently if you ask for licenses he doesn't have in hand
> he just doesn't bother to answer, based on my experience.

Charming.

> Curious way of doing business, but he has a monopoly.

But I don't understand _why_ he has a monopoly. It's free money for HPE
if they just issue new VAX/VMS licences (and without any support overheads)
on demand.

Someone posted the link to the licence transfer page the other day.
Why doesn't HPE have a similar process for creating and selling new
VAX/VMS licences ?

Simon.

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