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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.

The numbers of users that would want to steal RDB and do not
have a license PAK they could also steal is probably limited.

>> 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).

Does VMS PHP have mysql extension ?

>> 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... :-)

Not exactly geared towards the same requirements.

But if MySQL on VMS works as well as on other platforms, then it
is a good solution for many purposes.

(I have never use MYSQL on VMS, so I don't know)

Arne