[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[John Dallman]

In article <t3uplg$9o9$2 at dont-email.me>,
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:

> I keep wondering if VSI has gone for a policy of short-term income 
> at the expense of damaging long-term income and I hope that isn't 
> the case.

I suspect they need to become profitable fairly quickly, or risk their
backers pulling the plug. 

> VSI appears to be relying on the remaining VMS user base being a
> captive userbase that can't easily move away, but that only works
> if being a captive user doesn't become too painful or too risky
> for the user.

They are not in a position to grow the user base quickly, are they?

Thinking about that, it would seem to require some new kind of
application software that works uniquely well on VMS, presumably because
of some VMS feature that is hard to port to Linux or Windows. The current
VMS user community doesn't seem likely to invent such a thing, nor do VSI
staff, because they're all very experienced with the current ways of
doing things. 

The most likely route for such an invention would seem to be from a
company with younger people, who decide to learn VMS and spot a new way
of using it. The correct kind of ISV programme could improve the odds of
this happening, but they still aren't great. 

John