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@classiccmp.org
<mailto:cctalk@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.fell...@hpe.com <mailto:jon.fell...@hpe.com> <mailto:jon.fell...@hpe.com
<mailto:jon.fell...@hpe.com>>> for the same.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Cheers, Wiz!!
John H. Reinhardt
*From:*owner-hec...@update.uu.se <mailto:owner-hec...@update.uu.se>
[mailto:owner-hec...@update.uu.se <mailto:owner-hec...@update.uu.se>] *On Behalf Of
*David Moylan
*Sent:* Saturday, 7 March 2020 4:14 PM
*To:* hec...@update.uu.se <mailto:hec...@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:openvmscustomer...@hpe.com
<mailto:openvmscustomer...@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
