[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[motk]

On 3/27/24 09:09, motk wrote:
> 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.
> 

And a final thought - the Ambassador tier is just a way to extract 
commercial value from the remaining die-hards. Harsh of me to say 
perhaps but this is pathetic, and they've just poured forty years of 
goodwill down the sink.

-- 
motk