[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[motk]

On 3/27/24 00:26, Chris Townley wrote:
> Just received 2 mails from VSI
> 
> End of Alpha and I64 community licenses
> 
> Looks like a more restricted X86 - WE can download a pre-built and 
> licensed VMDK with a few LP, including compilers
> 
> Or there is an Ambassador program
> 
> Not sure what to think yet...
> 


It's dead. They just killed VMS - there's no way you can do anything 
useful with VMS anymore, there's no pipeline for new users. New owners 
are just going to do the broadcom extract-maxiumum-gravy thing. I 
wondered why my community license was taking seven months to provision. 
"Long waiting list" my buttocks.

If you're using VMS in production, it's beyond time to find an alternative.

If you can't abide newbies, you don't deserve a motivated base.Dropping 
a once-a-year toy version is 1990 nonsense.

-- 
motk