[Info-vax] VSI licencing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-08-03, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 8/3/2021 1:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, VSI do not seem to show any interest in addressing this.
>>
>> I wonder how much business it has cost them and how much it's going to
>> cost them simply because a customer cannot allow this situation to occur.
>>
>> A business may love VMS and want to stay with it, but they are not
>> going to allow the collapse of a vendor to be the collapse of their
>> own business, even if that means moving away from VMS.
>
> On this we agree 100%.
>

Even when people disagree with me on the other things I say, everyone
still appears to agree with me on this.

Why can't VSI see just how strongly customers feel about this and why
are they not doing anything to address this showstopping problem for
keeping many people as VSI customers ?

Do VSI simply not understand the sheer strength of customer feeling
about this ?

If you have your application source code, there are now solutions for
porting your VMS applications, including its VMS-specific code, over
to another operating system such as Linux.

How many people are now exploring this option as a direct result of
VSI's new time-limited licences policy ?

Simon.

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