🚀 go-pugleaf

Early this year DEC/Norway started pushing DECcampus as the way to go for
research environments. Frequently it is impossible to get money for regular
software maintenance while lump sums for purchasing something specific is 
easier. After some thought we ordered 3 DECcampus licenses in mid February.
The long awaited CDs finally arrived (once so far) in middle of October.
Yet, already DEC seems to have cold feet and have started mumbling about 
changing the contents of what the DECcampus contract is going to give us. 
They are certainly right in that we have never signed a contract explicitly 
laying out what DECcampus implies, but at least I would be exceedingly unhappy
if DEC reneges on what they promised us:

1) A lump sum for each node licensed.
2) A smallish sum each year to keep the CDs flowing afterwards. This sum is
   independent on the number of nodes licensed.
3) Unlimited number of simultaneous users (VMS) on each node licensed.
4) Access to all products which have a license on the CDs. 

One very annoying thing is that all DEC is saying to us is that the original
terms were too generous, but nobody seems to know exactly what that means or
what the new terms are going to be.

Have anybody heard anything about DECcampus in Europe? I know that it has been
available in many countries recently, perhaps somebody know what DEC is going to
do? At least for our site the future of DECcampus also decides what hardware and
software we purchase in the future.

-psi

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