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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/17/2021 3:42 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

And it is not necessarily just Alpha.

Those on Alpha absolutely need an Itanium, because cross
compilers are not available on Alpha.

But even those on Itanium may want an extra development box
for the VMS x86-64 development.

Arne