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

[calliet gérard]

Le 05/08/2021 à 14:21, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> On 2021-08-05, calliet gérard <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Once an avalanche of users start to move away from VSI, then it's going
> to be too late for VSI to do something about it.
> 
> "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
There is still a work for the Saint Bernard dogs (montain rescue dogs) :)

> That's as true in real life for this as it was in the fictional context.
> 
> Going back to something I said yesterday, I wonder if VSI really do think
> that the only choice for users is to deal with VSI, and hence VSI think
> they can dictate to the users the terms on which VSI will deal with the
> users.
> 
> I do suspect VSI are in for a nasty shock if they do believe that.
It seems VSI is like us: condemned to interpret a chrystal ball. We 
think they think we think. *If* they organized strong ways of 
consultation, we could abandone the chrystal ball.
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I know VMS isn't really portable (at least not in the modern sense of
> the word), but 7 years (and counting) is still a lot of time for a port.
> 
> Simon.
> 


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