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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-04 kl. 14:19, skrev 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.

Please define "everyone".

> 
> Why can't VSI see just how strongly customers...

"Customers"? How do you know what (real) customers think?
Maybe you are mixing up c.o.v with the real customers?

> feel about this and why are they not doing anything...

How do you know that they (the real customers) are doing nothing?
Do you really think that everything happening between VSI and its
customers would be copied to c.o.v? Don't think so...

> 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 ?

You obviously do not know much about how VSI and customres are
communicating. And it is *not* through c.o.v!

When was the last time you had any direct communication with VSI?

> 
> 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?

If you are one of those customers, do talk to VSI, just as all
other customers are doing that have some thoughts around this.

> 
> Simon.
>