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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<907f7ffa-760b-47be-9942-ab7495aae27a at o13g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
urbancamo <mwickens2004 at googlemail.com> writes: 

> 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.

Rdb as the back end, scripts written in DCL, stuff which needs speed
written in Fortran run through the SQL preprocessor, OSU web server.  
Both Rdb and the OSU web server were written for VMS and not ported to 
it; DEC has a long history of good Fortran compilers.  (The latest is 
not up-to-date with respect to the Fortran standards, but a) I don't 
think any vendor is and b) I doubt you need anything after Fortran 95.)

Price, performance, quality---choose any two.