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

[Dave Froble]

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 ?
>
> 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.
>

This is not going to be decided on c.o.v.  This will be decided by 
actual customers going to VSI and voicing their concerns, if any.  I do 
look for this to happen.  Whether we port to x86 and take our customers 
there might depend on such things.

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