[Info-vax] Oracle to buy HP ????

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei wrote 2011-10-02 08:55:
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>
>> If Rdb customers are forced to leave Itanium with no other platform for
>> VMS and Rdb in sight, then they very likely will not choose anything
>> from HP or Oracle as their next platform:
>
> 1- The bet is likely that RDB customers will continue to pay for support
> of the existing (last) version of RDB for VMS for many years

Note that what is the "last version" is 7.3.x. There is currently
no plan to *not* release new 7.3.x versions in the future. And these
will not be "bug-releases". As mr Duffy said, there might be a 7.2.12
sometimes in the future. And the limit for "Standard Support" will
also roll forward with each 7.3.x release. So, practicaly speaking,
not much will change, but there will not be a Rdb 7.4 (or 8.0) version.