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

[Michael Austin]

sapienzaf wrote:
> Here's my point about Oracle buying OpenVMS being a bad thing.
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> 
> I also don't think Oracle needs or wants to be an operating system
> company.  They seem to be quite comfortable with a multi-platform
> database and associated applications.

Ummmmm, you might want to rethink this statement given that they now are 
actively developing and support Oracle Enterprise Linux.  Granted, they 
stole it from RedHat, but they have stated they are in that business for 
the foreseeable future - as evidenced by the use of this in their 
Exadata server (similar paradigm to the Niteeza and Teradata).  The 
hardware is currently only available from HP but, again, the underlying 
OS is OEL.

BTW, you are aware that the CRS (Cluster-Ready-Services) in 10gRAC 
**IS** the cluster manager from VMS (via Tru64)... ???

As for previous discussions about the cross-pollenization of RDB/RDBMS, 
I have seen a LOT of features from Rdb slowly make their way into the 
RDBMS product.  CBO, partitioning, in 11g - meta-data versioning, 
Locally managed tablespaces (they use the same RDBMS terms, but in 
reality it is the Rdb storage area management.  Initially when Rdb was 
sold to Oracle, they were talks of merging the two products into one 
BEST-IN-CLASS product.  AFTER the deal was "done" they realized and 
stated that such a merger would be 15-20 year project.  We are at year 
14 in that timeline.  RDBMS STILL does not have the means to do 
near-realtime instance/database monitoring like RMU/SH STATS...  If they 
  did, they would wipe out many of those "after-market" tools like I3 
that sort-of does this.. then we could replace those 
horrendous-performing "scripts" to try and figure out the same stuff...