[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[MG]

On 2-apr-2013 14:44, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Of course.  "Playing around" is what you do with a hobbyist
> system.

Not necessarily, I've used (or, anyway, tried to use) my VMS
"Hobbyist"-licensed systems as a general purpose 'home' server.

That whole idea never really worked out for what I had in mind,
hence why I moved away from VMS and will only be emulating it
for keeping up to date on DCL and my ongoing porting projects
(including SQLite).


> OK. I haven't seen that writing. I remember from sometimes
> a few years ago that Oracle thought it was OK if you just
> "played around" with it.

They are okay with that, but I'm not.  I don't see the point
of playing around with something as lackluster and potentially
boring as a full-blown RDBMS, but that's me.

Especially something with so few job opportunities, like Rdb.
It wouldn't even be much of a useful practice.

If I should need Rdb, I can always log onto a remote access
system.

  - MG