[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-24 19:49, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <k1890i$j5n$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>> A database system presents the data to the user / programmer.  RMS is
>> just another database.  It's far from the only one.  It's just the one
>> that comes bundled with VMS.
>
>     Nope.  When I use a DBMS, I have to call the DBMS routines.  When I
>     use RMS, I use the native HLL statements or function calls.

That is just because you are using some HLL which have built in support 
to call RMS with keywords that map to RMS functionality... :-)
You could just as well imagine such a thing for any other database. And 
you could also probably explicitly call the RMS functions from your HLL, 
and avoid using the built-in keywords and functionality.

RMS have some good and tight integration with the languages in VMS, but 
that doesn't mean it plays on the same level as any other database... ;-)

But nowadays everyone like to use C, or something similar in taste, in 
which all invocations of anything means doing function calls.
I bet you even need function calls to do anything with RMS from C (you 
do on a PDP-11 atleast...)

	Johnny