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

[Richard Maher]

Hi Arne,

"Arne Vajhøj" <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
news:49c6d333$0$90276$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
> 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.

Just how "well" does it work on other platforms? The (admittedly oldish)
version I was using on Linux didn't offer any transactional integrity with
ISAM. (You had to have something like InnoDB) I was sticking the
transactional semantics in my Perl but they weren't doing a hell of a lot.
How "well" can you roll-forward and AIJ on other platforms?

Referencial integrity was just peachy also! Took my Trigger and Constraint
definition syntax with no problem; and then just proceeded to completely
ignore them :-(

I have to say MySQL was better than I thought it'd be but my expectations
weren't set very high. But it's great for those sites that store your
credit-card details in the clear, havn't even heard of referential
integrity, or transactional atomicity, and will make you prove that they
over/double-charged you for something (even if you managed to evade to
Bangalore call centre)

2PC with Oracle or SQL Server? XA? WS-AT? What planet are on? As if anyone
gives a shit about that stuff these days?
(Google does their backup anyway :-)

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

Cheers Richard Maher