[Info-vax] Viability of VMS in the embedded world ?, was: Re: OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-02, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> On 02/06/2021 23:08, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/2/2021 4:27 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at 2:05:38 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> Will you need to renew the VMS licence every year to keep your
>>>> embedded application running ?
>> 
>>> the license can be incorporated into the price as a one time license 
>>> purchase good for the life of the device
>> 
>> You must have missed a thread here.
>> 
>> Arne
>> 
>> 
> They would surely need a different model for the IOT
>

This is VSI management we are talking about. Based on what has happened
so far, I'm not convinced they will think like that.

They are more likely to worry about people using them for normal data
processing use to try and get around the time-limited licences if they
change the licencing model for the IoT devices.

Simon.

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