[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

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.
> 

But, don't you see, that is NOT a function of RMS, that is a function of 
the HLLs, which implement the usage of RMS.

Modify the HLL to implement the calls to the database of your choice, 
and you'd have the same thing.