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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

MG wrote 2013-04-02 14:55:
> 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 has more or less the same job opportunities as OpenVMS.
A little bit fewer maybe.

If you want to learn, say, MySQL becuse of the job
opportunities with MySQL, there is no reason to
use OpenVMS at all.


> 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
>