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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/4/2021 9:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.
>>
>

Keep in mind, there is an option.  Permanent license.  Hey, good enough 
for nuke plants, good enough for others.

I really don't want to see this route chosen, because customers could 
then go off support.  I think all VMS users need to be on support, if 
for no other reason, to financially support VSI.

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