[Info-vax] relaunch or legacy

[Dave Froble]

On 2/1/2022 1:44 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?

If there is no short term revenue, then there will not be any long term revenue.

Planting crops for next year isn't much help, if you're starving today.  Yes, 
both are important.

> 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 ?

I think people are making more of this than it deserves.

1) If VSI doesn't fail, then there is no problem.
2) If a customer just cannot accept it now, then they negotiate.

> 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 ?

As I mentioned, negotiate what is acceptable.  Got to figure if a hundred 
customers said "we will sign up with VSI, but, only if we have some acceptable 
plan to avoid a sudden loss of usage", what do you think VSI is going to do? 
Perhaps say "we don't need your money"?  Don't bet on that.  If it goes that 
way, then VSI will surely fail.  Most people don't believe in suicide.

> 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.

They are wanting to succeed, not go bust.  But if customers pressure them, they 
will negotiate something acceptable.  If customers don't care, then what's the 
problem?


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