[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-11-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 11/1/2022 4:16 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <tjrtfc$10pb$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> On 11/1/2022 3:48 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <tjrs45$erh$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>>> I am not aware of buying VMS licenses should not be easy. You
>>>>> contact VSI, you pay and you get your license. Anyone have had
>>>>> problems?
>>>>>
>>>>> Some may think the price is too high. But heck I also think that
>>>>> Ferrari's are too expensive as I can't afford one, but that is life.
>>>>
>>>> No, the issue is that most people can't get a non-expiring license.
>>>> CURRENT customers are not moving to x86 because of that; getting new
>>>> ones will be even more difficult.
>>>
>>> How many users representing how many licenses representing how
>>> many dollars?
>> 
>> I don't know.  Do you?
>
> No.
>
> But I am not the one claiming that it is a huge problem.
>

When you finally answer my question about why people would be persuaded
to try VMS in the first place, could you also answer why people would be
willing to put the future of their company at risk by buying a product
from a small vendor (VSI) that will stop working if that vendor goes bust ?

When answering that question, please keep in mind that there are mainstream
alternatives that will not stop working if the vendors supplying those
mainstream alternatives goes bust.

Thanks,

Simon.

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