[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <49ee7768$0$90272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> 	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
>>> I'd heard it was pushing up into the high-end web space, although presumably
>>> more for things like high-speed display of data (news aggregation, etc) than
>>> for transaction-dependent things directly involving money.
>> MySQL show up a lot pf places. It is actually an OK database.
> 
> Database experts would likely disagree.  Thankfully, we dropped it here
> in favor of Postgres.  Specifically because it lacked certain features
> of real databases that needed to be taught and couldn't with MySQL.

What features?

Arne