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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/2/2022 9:24 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-11-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> The entire VMS userbase of France.

I don't think that the entire userbase of France said
that they will not move to x84-64 due to the license
issue.

What was posted here at c.o.v. at some point from the french was:

<quote>
We have received a lot of negative feedback
from users about this new way of selling VMS which is very unbalanced,
to the point that some people are talking about leaving VMS due to these
conditions. We believe that VSI must listen to its installed base and
find more satisfactory answers, otherwise the effect will be the
opposite of the one desired.
...
The following points are the most
frequently reported by the users who responded: ... Loss of confidence 
in VSI
due to the change in licensing (mandatory subscription), ...
</quote>

Which is a serious issue brought up in a serious manner
by serious people.

But not that the entire userbase of France said
that they will not move to x84-64 due to the license
issue.

Arne