[Info-vax] OT: Elephants Can't Dance

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <Ef6dnSsSh8SiCTfUnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 

> sapienzaf wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 7:59 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >> 2) Oracle (VMS still goes hand-in-hand with RDB)
> > 
> > Oracle doesn't do much marketing of RDB, so I don't see them taking on
> > OpenVMS as a good thing.
> > 
> 
> Oracle incorporated a great deal of the good in RDB into their own 
> product.  I'm not sure that they are marketing it now or that they ever 
> did.  They are still supporting, AFAIK, customers who are still using RDB.

Although I agree with you and the previous poster about the (lack of) 
marketing, Rdb for VMS is still being quite actively developed.  See 
http://www.oracle.com/rdb/ .