[Info-vax] relaunch or legacy

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Feb 1 13:44:03 EST 2022


On 2022-02-01, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2022-01-28 11:00:25 +0000, Gérard Calliet said:
>
>> Le 27/01/2022 à 22:20, John Dallman a écrit :
>>> If you could express yourselves much more concisely, you might get 
>>> better results.
>> You are absolutely right. This has always been my problem.
>
> Prolix is, and it detracts.
>

Gerard, if you want people to read what you post, you need to cut down
the size of what you currently post to about 40% of that size maximum.

>
>> Thanks for the attention
>
> VSI has what they think is a path to sustained revenue with their 
> available staff and budget, and bespoke and app-specific services for 
> long-retired OpenVMS and VAX/VMS production environments doesn't seem 
> to be a big part of that. (yet?)
>

Short-term or long-term sustained revenue ?

How many people have refused to go with VSI as a direct result of
the time-limited production licences imposed by VSI without VSI
apparently being willing to make plans for what happens if VSI goes bust ?

Those time-limited production licences get VSI a guaranteed short-term
revenue stream. What are they doing to VSI's long-term revenue stream ?

How many companies would willingly tie the future of their systems
(and maybe even their company) so closely to the future of VSI ?

If VSI wants to make more people comfortable with time-limited
production licences, it needs to have a legally guaranteed plan
in place for if VSI goes bust. I am at a loss to understand why
VSI have apparently not addressed this as a matter of urgency.

Simon.

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