[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> It has been more than a year since I downloaded RDB but it installed
> and ran without a license. But there were caveats:

The need for a LMF-typ license was removed shortly after the
Oracle take-over of Rdb. Since then it has been running
without any on-system license.

> 2) Oracle-RDB still supports native methods of linking to applications
> written in DEC languages

There is also a native interface to Python (http://www.vmspython.org/).
I have used that in a few report-type of scripts (also using the
builtin PDF-writer module (ReportLab) in Python).

> 3) when my boss said no, we started to experiment with MySQL for
> OpenVMS

Compared with Rdb, MySQL is more of a joke then anything else... :-)

Jan-Erik.