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

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <49b71bd4$0$90266$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >>> What do you mean by "put life back into Rdb"?  The only thing it 
> >>> possibly lacks is marketing.
> >> How many new features has been added to RDB the last 10 years
> >> compared to Oracle Classic, DB2, SQLServer and the rest ?
> > 
> > How many does it need?  Does it do the job people choose it for?
> > Is the target being capable of doing a job ir keeping up with
> > the Jones's?
> 
> The expectations to a database is not constant over time.
> 
> People want more features all the time.
> 
> The production I list has added a ton of features the last
> 10 years.
> 
> If RDB want to be a general competitor they need new features
> as well.
> 
> If the plan is to let RDB support the existing apps that are not
> being developed much, then RDB does not need the new features. But
> there is not much of a future in that.

I don't think it is planned to run Rdb under anything other than VMS.  
So, only the wishes of the VMS customers are relevant.  Their wishes are 
routinely incorporated into new releases of Rdb.  The typical Rdb 
customer on VMS neither wants nor needs bells-and-whistles features 
which might exist in some other product---he wants something which will 
do the job.