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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/4/2021 8:19 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

Good questions.

Maybe too many random people complain in comp.os.vms and too few
paying customers complain directly?

Maybe VSI has not seen a financially attractive alternative?

Maybe VSI is working on something that is just mot ready yet.

Guesswork.

> 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.

Such solutions has existed for decades.

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

Probably very few. The remaining VMS world just don't jump so fast.

But if not eventually handled then it will yet another problem for VMS.

And VMS need fewer problems not more problems.

Arne