[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/25/22 22:37, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/25/2022 1:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-04-22, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 4/22/2022 1:46 PM, 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.
>>>
>>> They have obviously intended the opposite: they want to convert
>>> short term one time revenue to long term recurring revenue.
>>>
>>> How it actually works out is to be seen.
>>>
>>
>> The alternative viewpoint is that their short-term aggressive licence
>> policies could be scaring off VMS the customers who would have made up
>> their long-term income.
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> What if a number of VMS customers, currently with support contracts, 
> just declared "no, we won't accept that"?  Do you really think VSI would 
> let them just walk?
> 

Are you saying that VSI would give some people a better deal while the
majority would be stuck with the original plan?  You don't think that
would drive them away?

bill