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March 17, 2020

HPE sets end date for hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS

Written by [51]Ron Seybold in [52]Hewlett-Packard, [53]MPE, [54]OpenVMS

Hobbyist licenses for OpenVMS have been a notable option for users of
the VAX, Alpha, and Integrity business servers. HP 3000 users tried for
a similar license for MPE/iX, especially in the months following HP’s
news it wouldn’t continue its 3000 business. HP declined to create the
kind of license the users wanted to power the basement and in-garage
3000 servers they’d brought home.

With the change in ownership of OpenVMS — HP Enterprise turned over the
business to VMS Software Inc. — the hobbyist program is ending at HPE.
VSI is considering one option to continue hobbyist-class licenses.

Users can log a renewal request for their hobbyist licenses [55]at the
HPE website where they’ve obtained them over the years. When they do,
they receive their final set of licenses, good through Dec. 31, 2021,
along with a cover note.

“The community support OpenVMS has received over the years has been
instrumental in the success of the product,” the HPE note reads. “As we
approach the end of the HPE OpenVMS V8.4 standard support period, HPE
plans to conclude the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program. The HPE
OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses we are issuing in 2020 will be the last set.
Subsequently, HPE will not issue new HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses.”

The final licenses are valid through December 31st, 2021. “We hope that
this additional validity period will enable users to plan for the
future,” HPE said. “Users who wish to avail themselves of HPE OpenVMS
long term licenses are encouraged to purchase permanent licenses at
standard prices.”

At least one user of commercial-grade licenses for Alpha-based OpenVMS,
said the prices are prohibitive.

“The last time I was looking,” said Steven Reece, “was when I was
working for a VMS reseller about 10 years ago. The licenses for a DS20
came out to about £20,000 (USD 24,442), between the base license, the
user license, and the basic layered products (ucx, dvnetend, dw-motif.)
It meant that the project that I was trying to get off the ground never
got off the ground.”

“Point products for things like VMS Clusters on Integrity were very
expensive, too, so a hobbyist wouldn’t be willing to go for that on a
commercial basis unless they were very well off,” Reece added.

VSI is looking into a similar license for its versions of OpenVMS. Bill
Pedersen, who leads discussions during monthly conference calls about
open source on OpenVMS, says VSI is considering a student kit from VSI.
“I would expect they will update the Product Authorization Kits there,
but they have only been six-month PAKs,” he explained, “and then there
is a certain amount of hand waving you have to do get to the next
version, at least from comments people have made. I have not tried to
use the VSI student kit.”

The next [56]conference call for the OpenVMS open source group is March
19, over Skype.

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