[Info-vax] OpenVMS.org down

[MG]

On 5-8-2011 13:51, Paul Sture wrote:
> I my memory serves correctly the site started out running Tru64 on an
> Alpha.  Unfortunately switching to Rdb licenses aren't cheap.

Isn't OpenVMS.org a non-profit organization?  I don't know how that
would work, exactly, but wouldn't that entitle it for non-commercial
licensing?  (Again, I don't know for sure, I haven't read any of the
Oracle licenses or end-usage agreements recently...)


> Sidenote on MySQL: Apple have dropped MySQL from the server version of
> their latest release of OS X in favour of PostgreSQL.  I think the
> decision was probably to do with licensing and Oracle getting MySQL
> along with the rest of Sun.

That's not a bad decision, of Apple (seeing what Oracle deems normal).

The only problem, from a VMS perspective:  I don't think there are
modern, working/stable, ports of PostgreSQL for VMS at the moment.

  - MG