[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[John Dallman]

In article <utulvc$1pmvc$1 at dont-email.me>, news at cct-net.co.uk (Chris
Townley) wrote:

> Looks like a more restricted X86 - We can download a pre-built and 
> licensed VMDK with a few LP, including compilers

Looking up what you can do with a VMDK, the options for running it seem
to be QEMU, VirtualBox or VMware. The problems there are:

* QEMU seems to be pretty complex, or at least, ill-documented.
* VirtualBox is from Oracle, and thus subject to corporate whims. 
* VMware is from Broadcom, whose swingeing price rises are putting 
  everyone off the product.

My employers are large-scale users of VMware, but the price rises have
them looking hard at alternatives. 

John