[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Dave Froble]

On 4/26/2022 12:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 4/26/22 10:45, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 4/26/2022 7:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Standard customer rules:
>>
>> 1) The customer is always right.
>>
>> 2) When customer is wrong, refer to rule #1.
>>
>
> Where's the tongue-in-cheek emoji?
> You can't possibly be that naive.
>
> If that were true we would still be buying from DEC or at the very
> least HP would still be pushing VMS.
>
> bill
>

I didn't say that a particular vendor would survive.

I did seem to imply that if customers were not satisfied, a vendor could perish.

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