[Info-vax] Over 70 x rx2800 in stock right now October 7 2021

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 10/17/2021 3:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2021-10-16, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
>>> VSI does us NO favours/favors. We couldn't offer any licensing that
>>> might benefit us
>>> They will not discount their licensing to us (well, they offer a 8%
>>> allowance for a one time new sale to a new customer) so in most cases
>>> nothing.
>>> I can guarantee that VSI has more concern over what is on the buffet
>>> table at their Friday corporate lumch than their relationship with us
>> 
>> If someone from VSI is reading this, can you consider raising this
>> internally to see if both VSI and David can benefit from offering
>> David more flexible licencing ?
>
> Note that I started this subtopic for one very specific
> case: Itanium systems to host cross-compilers for VMS x86-64.
> Getting as much stuff available for VMS x86-64 as posisble
> should be a top priority for VSI.
>

I know Arne. It's a very real issue and providing cheap testbeds
to those customers still on Alpha can really help VSI here.

That's why I am puzzled by VSI's attitude as reported by David.

Simon.

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