[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:54:32 -0400, Thomas Wirt wrote:

> On 8/3/2012 3:29 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>
>>> I've no idea how many of these qualify as "new features" in your world
>>> but I guess that there have been a fair deal of worktime put into
>>> this.
>>
>>
>> OK, so it appears there was real development done, but nothing earth
>> shattering (which is to be expected on an older product compared to a
>> new one that gets plenty of new features added in early releases to
>> catch up)
>>
> I am not a DBA, but I know a few.  I have heard them say in the last few
> years that RDB on VMS is still the best DB engine out there.  If you
> don't consider the features added as being a big deal, then what would
> you expect.  It strikes me that the changes to any mature DB these days
> will revolve around bug fixes, better monitoring capabilities, and
> ability to handle ever lager sets of data.  It seems like RDB is doing
> that these days.
> 
> Just my humble opinion.  I could be wrong.  :)

A dozen and more years ago I was working with both Oracle Classic and Rdb 
folks and their opinion was that Rdb was more advanced than Classic.  
They also observed that various features of Rdb were gradually being 
implemented in Classic.

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Paul Sture