[Info-vax] Suggestions for implementation languages/utilities for new database project

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:34:13 +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

>Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2012-01-31 12:23:
>> urbancamo wrote 2012-01-31 12:08:
>>> I'd like to tap into the comp.os.vms collective wisdom...
>>>
>>> I'm about to start a new project, a hobbyist project, which will
>>> involve an application to provide a query system front end to a
>>> database of information. A fairly standard information query
>>> application. It will be implemented on a VMS system, either Alpha or
>>> Itanium based.
>>>
>>> I'd like recommendations of languages and databases that people have
>>> had good experience with in the past, from a VMS-hosted perspective.
>>> I'm a Java programmer by trade, so a traditional web-based front end
>>> with Java based business logic and either a MySQL or Oracle database
>>> would be first choice, but I'm interested in alternatives that
>>> developers have had good experience with.
>>>
>>> I'm more interested in a productive development environment, so for
>>> example any technologies that speed database integration with business
>>> logic. I'm happy to consider mature VMS-centric technologies if they
>>> provide a good level of productivity.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Mark.
>>
>> Professional/hobby environment?
>> Expected traffic volume?
>> Number and complexity of web-pages?
>>
>> For quick up-n-running, WASD server, Python scripting with MySQL
>> database backend.
>>
>> http://wasd.vsm.com.au/
>> http://www.vmspython.org/
>> http://www.vmsmysql.org/
>>
>> Jan-Erik.
>
>Sorry! Missed the line "a hobbyist project" in your post...
>
>If I'm not wrong, you are also allowed to run Rdb as a hobbyist.
>Way better DBMS then MySQL, IMHO... :-)

Eiffel/Studio + RDB + VMS would be the business.

http://www.eiffel.com/products/studio/

Unfortunately, I do not think that there are, currently, hobbyist
licences, or even trial versions of the VMS implementation.