[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/22/2011 2:29 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
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>> Especially not when you can get an O/S for FREE. It's not VMS but
>> Linux works, and offers the customary functions and services.
>
> Linux wasn't really usable before the end of the 1990s.
> VMS OTOH lost the race already at the beginning of that decade.
> One could even fix a date: on 11 January 1989,
> the day the DECstation 3100 was introduced,
> DEC themselves admitted that Unix is no longer
> a russian truck but would be the future.
>
>> The last time I looked at license prices for an Alphaserver 4100 a VMS
>> license was something like $20K. Now add Oracle!
>
> Oracle for Linux is free?
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I doubt that Oracle for Linux is free!  Oracle is what people use when
they need the best.  There may be a "hobbyist" license but I have never 
seen one nor heard it mentioned.

Sybase is, or was, an alternative database.  It is not free either AFAIK.