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

[calliet gérard]

Le 05/08/2021 à 01:31, Dave Froble a écrit :
> 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.
> 
Indeed.

But very few are doing that. Because they react deciding to quit VMS. 
And because it is one by one they quit, VSI cannot understand it's a 
general issue they have to cope with.

For decades there has been hemorrhage out of VMS. We were able in 2014 
to fight against that with the VSI creation. We didn't stop it, but we 
were able to make some of the customers wait. The only message from VSI 
had been since that "you'll have x86"... and the x86 horizon walked away 
each year. It has been increadable difficult to make wait the customers 
who didn't yet abandoned. You add the licensing issue, and everyone I 
know has decided to go away. I think it is the real reason why the 
customers don't speak with VSI to renegotiate.They are already out.

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