[Info-vax] RDB is out. How about Oracle-Oracle ? And VMS ?

[John Smith (not the one @ HP)]

About the only thing HP could do that makes any shred of sense is to 
convince Oracle to sell Rdb back to HP. Remember the old days when a Windows 
version of Rdb was promised....if they could have done a Win version then an 
unix/linux version can be done too.

HP doesn't have a native rdbms, unlike Sun and IBM ...except in the NSK 
lineup.




"Keith Parris" <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:ini5vu$75o$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com...
> On 3/29/2011 10:13 AM, Syltrem wrote:
>> So how about the survival of VMS ? Up until now and despite all the 
>> vendors
>> who dropped development on it, and the lack of marketing efforts, I 
>> thought
>> it would survive at least for several years because people using it (most 
>> of
>> them anyway) know its value.
>
> One positive result of the Oracle situation is that HP has put an official 
> statement of support for OpenVMS from Martin Fink on the HP website at 
> http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Mission-Critical-Computing-Blog/HP-puts-customers-first-and-remains-committed-to-Integrity/ba-p/89983
>
> "Let me reassure you. HP plans to continue the development and
> innovation of Itanium-based Integrity NonStop and Integrity server
> platforms with our HP-UX and OpenVMS operating systems for more than
> 10 years."
>