[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

Bob Koehler wrote:

>    And, oh by the way, if it is an application which is best served
>    by using a DBMS, then use one. 


With Unix, it is all or nothing.  You either deal with a sequential file
which you read into memory and fully rewrite to disk whenever a change
is made, or you go with an SQL based system.

RMS (and VSAM on MVS) allows a middleground where you can update single
recordds easily, add and delete records witout having to rewrite the
whole file.  And it does provide for data sharing since record locking
is available.

And because it is built-in, it does not rely on some server process
doing the data access, it accesses it itself. And there is no need to
install layerd products that matches a specific version.

It should be noted that even the Unix world has realised the need for a
lightweight data access methods and this is why more and more Unixes
comes with sqlite. (and I think even the iPhone has it embeded into its
software).