Pathworks for the hobbyist, and general pricing of VMS things

From: Tom Garcia (tgarcia_at_hivemind.REMOVE-SPAM-TRAP.org)
Date: 09/16/05 

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:50:44 +0100

Hello,

Firstly, thank you to all those who arranged the hobbyist programme --
having previously taken advantage of it to run a simple home PWS 500au
web/mail server, I'm now really getting *into* VMS - this time with a herd
of dump-liberated VAXstation 4000/60s - though I think power/noise
requirements may preclude running *all* the latter 24/7 :-(.

I'm enjoying reading this newsgroup, and it's likely I'll be throwing out
questions from time to time :-). First a simple licensing thing re Pathworks
(specifically v6.1 for VAX, though I think it's considered identical to 7.3a
for licensing purposes?) -- is it accessible to the hobbyist?

Here is what I have found out so far (this is probably all obvious but it's
the first time I've investigated how VMS licensing works beyond executing
the DCL to register the hobbyist PAKs):

(1) Some basic authentication services work without any extra licenses, but
file sharing services do not.

(2) The appropriate license is PWLMXXXCA07.03 .

(3) The full commercial prices for the client licensing method are at
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/swcat/us/pwrksasca.html -- ie $149 for one
concurrent PC access, though I have found around $105 advertised in other
places.

(4) New servers come with one or two client access licenses, and the
September 2003 DECcampus provided perpetual licensing for some limited
number of clients (35?), so they *are* being bundled in some places -- but
are they being bundled with anything accessible to the hobbyist?

Wondering out of interest how much everything costs to the commercial user,
I see the price for an ActualRealCopy of VMS is around $500, but I think
this is just the base system, i.e. not even TCP/IP let alone stuff like
Pathworks? And the EIP which I think *does* include lots of fun toys is
about three times this, i.e. .gt.budget. Are both these licenses valid just
for some version x.y-z -- e.g. would I have to pay the whole $500 again to
upgrade, say, base from 8.2 to 8.2-1, or is there discount? I am in UK, if
it makes any difference.

Thanks for your time, 

-- 
Tom Garcia | tgarcia@hivemind.remove-this-spam-trap.org

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