8 Mar
2020
8 Mar
'20
1:21 p.m.
On 3/8/2020 11:14 AM, Lee Courtney wrote:
John,
Thanks for the heads up. What would you suggest one enter for the mandatory fields:
Participating Chapter * and Membership Number *
Lee Courtney
You need to belong to a DECUS chapter in order to get the Hobbyist license. The easiest
way now (and cheapest) is to ssh to eisner.decus.org and log in with the username of
"REGISTRATION". That will take you through the process of getting an account.
These instructions are also a the bottom the page at <https://eisner.decus.org/> As
a result you get a DECUS member number which you can use on the HPE Hobbyist registration
site. Participating Chapter would be "DECUServe" (it's at the end of the
list).
IIRC there is about a two week wait from the time you get your member number on Eisner
until the number is active in the HPE database for the Hobbyist license so you may have to
wait a bit. In the meantime you have an Eisner account which is an Alphaserver DS20
running OpenVMS V8.4 to play with. If you are new to VMS then "HELP" is your
friend. You can find out just about anything you wanted to know starting with
"HELP".
John H Reinhardt
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 3:34 AM John H. Reinhardt via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
For those interested, HPE has finally, formally announced the end of their
participation in the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program.? A number of people have received the below
message from HPE, probably everyone they have on record as having current Hobbyist
licenses.
If you have any current or future ( at least before the end of 2021 ) interest in
Hobbyist licenses for any version of OpenVMS from 5.0 through 8.4 for VAX ( only up to
7.3) or Alpha and Itanium, then register now.? HPE is looking to find out how many are
interested in Hobbyist offerings and even though the new license will be good through
2021, I don't expect them to be generating them past the end of 2020 and maybe
sooner.
Register for Hobbyist PAKs at one of the following (I suggest the HPE address
first):
https://www.hpe.com/h41268/live/index_e.aspx?qid=24548
http://plato.ccsscorp.com/hobbyist_registration.php
? ? Note the underscore between hobbyist and registration in hobbyist_registration.
One Hobbyist user reports this:
? ? I?ve just received an update from the OpenVMS Customer lab:
? ? Here?s the message from the OpenVMS team.? The idea was that hobbyists would
visit the site and renew their licenses, and in response, we would provide the final set
of licenses,
? ? explaining the scenario:
? ? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
? ? ?? 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. Attached
? ? ???is the final set of the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist licenses. These final licenses
? ? ???are valid through December 31st, 2021. We hope that this additional validity
? ? ???period will enable users to plan for the future.
? ? ?? Users who wish to avail of HPE OpenVMS long term licenses are encouraged to
? ? ???purchase permanent licenses at standard prices. You may contact [Fellman,
Jon]
? ? ???<jon.fellman at hpe.com <mailto:jon.fellman at hpe.com>
<mailto:jon.fellman at hpe.com <mailto:jon.fellman at hpe.com>>> for the
same.
? ? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
? ? Cheers, Wiz!!
John H. Reinhardt
*From:*owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>] *On
Behalf Of *David Moylan
*Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 4:14 PM
*To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE <mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE>
*Subject:* [HECnet] HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing
Hi all,
Just received the e-mail below. I?ve hunted around all the various Hobbyist locations
and licensing pages and can?t find any additional information.
I?ve already replied back to ask what the impact of Hobbyist renewal licensing will
be. I have no further information at this stage.
Have others received this as well? Does anyone have any further knowledge on this?
I can see a few people have forwarded/posted the same message on comp.os.vms.
Cheers, Wiz!!
*From:*OpenVMS Customer Lab [mailto:openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com
<mailto:openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com>]
*Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 3:13 PM
*Cc:* OpenVMS Customer Lab
*Subject:* OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification
Dear HPE OpenVMS hobbyist,
This is to inform you that HPE is concluding the HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program
in alignment with the HPE OpenVMS support roadmap.
If you wish to understand more details, please reach out to us at the earliest
through the usual license renewal webpage.
Thank you.
HPE OpenVMS team
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Lee Courtney
+1-650-704-3934 cell
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John H. Reinhardt